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