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    copied!<p>I have this code to restart a service, but this is not working.</p> <p>I can start and stop individually but not restart which involves me to first stop and start the service.</p> <pre><code>try { //service.Stop(); //service.Start(); int millisec1 = Environment.TickCount; TimeSpan timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds); service.Stop(); service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped, timeout); // count the rest of the timeout int millisec2 = Environment.TickCount; timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds - (millisec2 - millisec1)); service.Start(); service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running, timeout); } catch { // ... } </code></pre> <p>It is simply going in the catch section.</p> <p>I don't know where i am going wrong.</p> <p>Any suggestions.??</p> <p>UPDATE:</p> <p>So I took the idea from the correct answer below:</p> <p>This is what need to be done></p> <pre><code>public static void RestartService(string serviceName, int timeoutMilliseconds) { ServiceController service = new ServiceController(serviceName); int millisec1 = Environment.TickCount; TimeSpan timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds); if (!(service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped) || service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.StopPending))) { service.Stop(); service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped, timeout); } // count the rest of the timeout int millisec2 = Environment.TickCount; timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds - (millisec2 - millisec1)); if (!(service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.Running) || service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.StartPending))) { service.Start(); service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running, timeout); } } </code></pre>
 

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