Making a service(s) start by opening a program

giggsy664

Hey

I'm just wondering if it's possible to make services (in my case, "Apple Mobile Device", "iPod Service" and "Bonjour") start by opening a program (Predictably for me, it's iTunes :P)

Any help is welcome, I don't care if the launch time of iTunes is trebled, as I only use it once or twice a week.

Even if it's only possible to make 1 or 2 of these processes start when iTunes is started, I'll be happy

BTW, I'm on XP SP3. Using iTunes 9.0
In before "Get a Zune"

snappieT

Hmm, you could write a batch file to start the lot. This guide shows how to start and stop services on the command line. Combine with the "start" command to let them all start at the same time.

For example, put this in the batch file:

@echo off
start net start "Apple Mobile Device"
start net start "iPod Service"
start net start "Bonjour"
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe"

That'll start the three services and iTunes. To make a batch file, type this into notepad, then save as a file ending in .bat instead of .txt. Double click and it'll do the lot.

giggsy664

Thanks a million