On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:18:04 -0400, Wally J wrote:
>
[big snip]

For those who just want to do what the subject line says, I
respectfully suggest Wally's research is overkill. Doesn't mean I
think it's bad in itself, just that it puts a burden on the person
whose needs are simple. Sometimes when I'm posting a long article I
start off with a TL;DR section before going on to the long version.

I'm pretty sure I posted earlier in this thread. A simple google
search for "restart print spooler windows" (without the quotes)
reveals the answer.

1. Open an administrative(*) command prompt.
2. Type "net stop spooler" (without quotes), hit the Enter key, and
wait a few seconds for the command to report it has finished.
3. Type "net start spooler" (without quotes), hit the Enter key, and
wait a few seconds for the command to report it has finished.

(*) The first hit was from Dell, relating to Windows 7, and it didn't
mention an _administrative_ command prompt. Maybe Windows 7 could
execute those two commands in a non-elevated prompt; I don't know.
But Windows 10 needs an admin command prompt, as I quickly found by
experimentation, so I'll bet dollars to donuts Windows 11 does also.

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

On 12/30/23 16:56, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:18:04 -0400, Wally J wrote:
>>
> [big snip]
>
> For those who just want to do what the subject line says, I
> respectfully suggest Wally's research is overkill. Doesn't mean I
> think it's bad in itself, just that it puts a burden on the person
> whose needs are simple. Sometimes when I'm posting a long article I
> start off with a TL;DR section before going on to the long version.
>
> I'm pretty sure I posted earlier in this thread. A simple google
> search for "restart print spooler windows" (without the quotes)
> reveals the answer.
>
> 1. Open an administrative(*) command prompt.
> 2. Type "net stop spooler" (without quotes), hit the Enter key, and
> wait a few seconds for the command to report it has finished.
> 3. Type "net start spooler" (without quotes), hit the Enter key, and
> wait a few seconds for the command to report it has finished.
>
> (*) The first hit was from Dell, relating to Windows 7, and it didn't
> mention an _administrative_ command prompt. Maybe Windows 7 could
> execute those two commands in a non-elevated prompt; I don't know.
> But Windows 10 needs an admin command prompt, as I quickly found by
> experimentation, so I'll bet dollars to donuts Windows 11 does also.
>

Hi Stan,

In which case, if you decide to respond to the OP's question,
look up the google search links and give them to him.
This helps a lot when the poster has already been searching
on the wrong search terms.

I have had a similar issue with searching for Remote Access
Tool removers. Paul found it instantly. I had the wrong
terms: remote assistance. What a difference one word makes.

Giving RTFM or Just Google It (the new RTFM) is insulting
to the OP. And we have enough of that crap going around this
group as it is.

And no one is forcing you to read posts. If you think
someone is asking you to do their homework for them,
just ignore them.

-T

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote

> But Windows 10 needs an admin command prompt, as I quickly found by
> experimentation, so I'll bet dollars to donuts Windows 11 does also.

With all due respects, Stan, it's worse than you seem to be aware of.
Please don't respond until you actually try it WITHOUT reading my tutorial!
*You _will_ fail*

I know you're a smart guy, Stan. But you have to try it to see why Windows
doesn't like pinning a "non-regular" shortcut to its taskbar. Try it first.

As I said, those who have never done it, think it's simple to do.
It's not.

In this case, anyone saying it's simple hasn't done it.
So they're to the left of the Dunning-Kruger Mount Stupid peak.
<https://i.stack.imgur.com/wgoc9.jpg>

They're oh so very confident.
And yet, oh so very naive.
Which is a trait of the people to the left of Mount Stupid by the way.
<https://i.stack.imgur.com/NJkCp.png>

Try it before you respond please.
Let me know if I'm right or wrong about that.

Only Zaidy036 truly understood (based on what he had suggested), although
there are two ways, but the best way is the way Zaidy036 had suggested.

You'll note in my tutorial I had implemented it both ways.
The point being you have to try it to know the pitfalls.

What is not intuitive is that you need to bring in Windows task scheduler
(nor is it intuitive how to pin admin-batch-shortcut-results on the tasbar)
(nor is it intuitive how to easily access admin commands from the RUN box)
(nor is it intuitive how to easily access ANY commands from the RUN box)
(nor is it intuitive how to easily create your own icons with Irfanview)
(nor is it intuitive how to start & stop based on the current status)
(nor is it intuitive how to change the icon color based on the status)
etc.

Anyone who said "lmgtfy" was simply stating they're to the left of Mt
Stupid in that they "think" they know more than they actually know.
<https://i.stack.imgur.com/XgbX3.jpg>

In summary, it's easy, if you know how.
What I wrote up, was how.

It's also easy if you skip most of the steps like you did.
But you will fail doing that.

Try it.
Let me know how it works out for you.

BTW, we _still_ need someone to teach both of us how to flip the color of
the pinned taskbar icon between red & green depending on the status so
there's still more to learn with respect to using Windows efficiently.

On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:42:57 -0800, T wrote:
> In which case, if you decide to respond to the OP's question,
> look up the google search links and give them to him.
> This helps a lot when the poster has already been searching
> on the wrong search terms.

I listed the Google search in my second paragraph.

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 04:03:35 -0400, Wally J wrote:
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote
>
> > But Windows 10 needs an admin command prompt, as I quickly found by
> > experimentation, so I'll bet dollars to donuts Windows 11 does also.
>
> With all due respects, Stan, it's worse than you seem to be aware of.
> Please don't respond until you actually try it WITHOUT reading my tutorial!
> *You _will_ fail*

[shrugs] I _did_ try it before posting, and it worked fine for me.

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:42:57 -0800, T wrote:
> > In which case, if you decide to respond to the OP's question,
> > look up the google search links and give them to him.
> > This helps a lot when the poster has already been searching
> > on the wrong search terms.
>
> I listed the Google search in my second paragraph.

I think 'T' means the URLs found by the search. Note he says "links"
(plural), but a search URL is a single one.

But it's all water under the bridge, because you gave the search and
described the relevant result (the Dell one). So you answered the OP's
question (and so did Andy and I). But the OP shifted the goalposts and
then 'Wally J' (aka 'Arlen Holder') kept/keeps on rewriting history.

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 12:55:18 -0800, Stan Brown wrote:
> it worked fine for me.

Thank you for all your help. Over the weekend I had time to comb through
all the suggestions and I implemented every suggestion that was made.

The task bar icon (and run command and Windows batch command and task bar
menu command) tests if the service is running which is helpful because I
don't have to know ahead of time whether it's running or not and then it
will either turn the service on (if it's not running) or off (if it is).

The task bar icon (and all the associated ways of running it) also does
nothing if it's already running and I want to turn it in (or vice versa).
There's no way a search would have found all that I ended up doing to
add the command in all the places that make it easy to run it later.

I don't think even fifty searches would have found everything in this
thread as I'd have to have known all the keywords (like app paths) first.

Only one poster pieced it all together but everyone helped and over the
weekend I had time off to run the tests and it's working wonderfully!

Thank you all for your help in making this work great. Happy New Year!

On 2 Jan 2024 16:02:12 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

>> I listed the Google search in my second paragraph.
>
> I think 'T' means the URLs found by the search. Note he says "links"
> (plural), but a search URL is a single one.

Thank you for your help. As I replied to Stan, I don't think even fifty
searches would have found everything in this thread as I'd have to have
known all the keywords (like app paths) first and I'd have to know that
pinning a shortcut to run as an admin is different than a regular shortcut
and the batch shortcuts are also different when pinned than non batch ones.

But it's all working now with a lot of easy ways to run it and it tests the
status before doing anything and all of that is done with a single click.

A wonderful bonus is this process should work for any Windows service,
which is where having the name being the command for each one is useful.

Happy New Year!