To start a service and copy the files and stop the service in windows service .  Please check the below code    @echo off  net stop " service  name"  echo service  stopped  XCOPY c:\books.xml D:\books.xml  echo copied  net start " service  name"  :end    The  command net start " service  name" will start the service, change the service name to your desirable  service to start   The  command net stop " service  name" will stop the service, change the service name to your desirable  service to stop  XCOPY command will copy the file from source to target destination    type all these command under a batch file and save it and then run it in command prompt    It is assumed that the user's know, IIS, windows service