Type 'sc' at the DOS prompt and see if anything there will work for you. Certainly deleting the service works, as I use that for listener services etc. Joel Patterson Database Administrator joel.patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx x72546 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J. Dex Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 4:04 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Changing service auto to manual via batch Is there a way to change the "running services" status in the "Services" window from Automatic to Manual via a batch script? I have a batch script that uses oradim to shutdown/startup my 9207 databases on a WIN2003 server but don't know how to change the status from automatic to manual in the event the server administrator wants to reboot the machine a couple of times before I have the databases restart. My oradim command in the batch job looks like this: oradim -shutdown -sid dbsid -shutmode I -shuttype SRVC >> %BASELOGS%\oracle_shutdown.log _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l