This is not service.bat which you posted, tyhis is run.bat (even says so in the 6th line). Because you are using JBoss Native, you can add the -c (or any other options such as -b) to the service.bat file. Here is an example (with enough surrounding lines to give context): :cmdStart | REM Executed on service start | ... | call run.bat -c yourconfig < .r.lock >> run.log 2>&1 | ... | goto cmdEnd View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165679#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...