Windows 10: Bat or Exe file to restart Computer Browser Service

About 1 out of every 6 times I turn my laptop on I have to restart the computer browser service to be able to connect to networks. Is there a bat or exe file I can create that I can just click on and run to restart the service instead of having to go into the services/computer browser area to restart each time this happens? Thanks.

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Bat or Exe file to restart Computer Browser Service

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Bat or Exe file to restart Computer Browser Service

You can create a desktop or task bar shortcut using this command line:

net start "Computer Browser"





You must then right-click the short-cut, left-click "Properties", "Shortcut", "Advanced" and tick "Run as Administrator".

 

You should really get to the root of the problem, but since this is a good opportunity to brush up on my scripting I’m going to assume you’ve verified the service’s settings are regular and that you’ve exhausted your options, so here are your suggestions in fruition.

Batch (.bat)
Code: @echo off set "service=MyServiceName" >nul sc query "%SERVICE:"=%" if errorlevel 1 ( if errorlevel 1060 ( >&2 echo Cannot find any service with service name '"%SERVICE:"=%"' ) else ( >&2 echo Error ) exit /b 1 ) sc query "%SERVICE:"=%" | find "STATE" | findstr "2 4" >nul if errorlevel 1 ( >nul sc start "%SERVICE:"=%" if errorlevel 1 ( >&2 echo Error starting service exit /b 1 ) ) else ( >nul sc stop "%SERVICE:"=%" if errorlevel 1 ( >&2 echo Error stopping service exit /b 1 ) >nul pathping -n -p 220 -q 1 127.0.0.1 >nul sc start "%SERVICE:"=%" )[/quote]
C# (.exe)
PHP Code: using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.ServiceProcess;

class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ServiceController service = new ServiceController("MyServiceName");

if ((service.Status & (ServiceControllerStatus.Running | ServiceControllerStatus.StartPending)) == 0)
{
try
{
service.Start();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}
else
{
try
{
service.Stop();
service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped);
service.Start();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}
}
}

VBScript (.vbs)
Code: strService = "MyServiceName" Set objSWbemServices = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2") Set colServices = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE Name = '" & strService & "'") If colServices.Count = 0 Then WScript.Echo "Cannot find any service with service name '" & strService & "'" End If On Error Resume Next For Each svc In colServices If svc.State = "Running" Or svc.State = "Start Pending" Then result = svc.StopService If result <> 0 Then If result = 2 Then WScript.Echo "Error stopping service: Access is denied" WScript.Quit 1 End If WScript.Echo "Error stopping service: " & Err.Description WScript.Quit 1 End If WScript.Sleep 200 svc.StartService Else svc.StartService If result <> 0 Then WScript.Echo "Error starting service: " & Err.Description WScript.Quit 1 End If End If Next[/quote]
You should replace ‘MyServiceName’ with the name of your service (not to be confused with the service display name, e.g., ‘w32time’ instead of ‘Windows Time’).

Many services can be started but cannot be stopped without administrative privileges. If you know or suspect this is the case with your service, you may need to run the program as administrator each time.