On 1/4/2011 10:25 PM, Ken wrote:
Hi. Everytime I boot Windows XP a number of postgres.exe services start and run in the background. As I am only an occasional user of postgresql on my laptop I was wondering how (a) I could disable the auto-start of the service on boot and (b) how to manually start/stop postgresql when needed? Thanks. Ken
In the Services MMC Console (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services I think, it's been a while) you can change the startup type to "Manual" instead of "Automatic", then the service will only run when told to.
After doing that, you can create batch files that use the NET START and NET STOP commands (you'll have to find out the service name from the above step to use them). Then run these batch files when you to start and stop the PostgreSQL service (or just type the commands in the command-line each time I suppose).
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