The VBscript fires off a "tftp xxx xxx xxx xxx" command using the WshShell.Exec () method<BR>4. The script works fine if I double-click it while logged into a Windows system<BR>5.

Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed.

Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of 'more advanced' alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell in a three-phase plan that looks like it will wrap up shortly after 2027 or so.

This is probably more suited for the programming symposium, and to be honest, for security reasons, I am pretty sure that you wouldnt be able to start or stop a service from vb script, from a vb ...