Starting services
$status = Win32::Service::StartService($host, $service); #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Win32::Service; $num_args = scalar( @ARGV ); $host = ''; $service = "yourServiceName"; $status = Win32::Service::StartService($host, $service); if ($status) { print "Started $service.\n"; } else { print_error(); } sub print_error { print Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() ); }