Want to Start, Stop or Restart a Windows Service at a Scheduled Time?

Service Scheduler is a free, administrative utility that lets you start, stop or restart a Windows Service whenever you like.

Set it and forget it!

For example, with Service Scheduler you can easily:

Service Scheduler's intuitive interface makes it super easy to schedule your service operation. For example, here's how to instruct Service Scheduler to restart the Print Spooler service every day at 3 AM (when no one should be printing!):

And it's just as easy to stop your Postgres database service at 11 PM on September 17 (at the beginning of a Saturday maintenance window):

How to use Service Scheduler

1. Download Service Scheduler. Save the executable file on your desktop, or to another well-known location on your computer.

2. Double-click the ServiceScheduler.exe file to launch the program on your desktop. If necessary, click "Yes" to confirm the standard User Account Control (UAC) security prompt:

   

3. The window that comes up lists all the active service tasks (when you want to start, stop or restart a service). It will be empty since you don't have any service tasks yet:

   

4. Let's add a new service task to restart the Spooler service every morning at 3 AM. Choose Service Task > New (or click the button):

   

5. Next, select Restart, choose the Spooler service and configure the time:

   

6. Click Save. The new service task will show up in the list:

   

7. And that's it! Going forward, your Spooler service will restart at 3AM every night.

Afterwards, you can click:

• to edit your service task (change the time, etc.);

• to start, stop or restart your service immediately (to test, etc.);

• to remove the service task.

Happy scheduling!