NET Start / Stop Help needed

Soldato
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Hi Guys i need to pick your brains.

Im running XP Home on a nasty 2gh celeron with only 256mb of ram and its like a dog :( Im trying to save resources by only enabling services when they are needed via the "NET START" and "NET STOP" commands but i have a problem.

With the Automatic Updates service it must be set to automatic for the auto update website to work. I can start and stop it ok but i need to change it from manual to automatic without having to open the services.msc everytime i want to update.

Is this possible?

here is the cmd script im using at the moment.
Code:
net start "Automatic Updates"
net start "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"
start /D%SystemRoot%\system32\ /wait wupdmgr.exe
 
starting them and stoping them is not the problem what i need it to do is set "Automatic updates" service from manual to automatic aswell as start the service.
 
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