Hi.. i am able to start and stop the service... the changes that i made in service.bat are: :cmdStop REM Executed on service stop call shutdown -s 192.168.1.216 >stop.log goto cmdEnd added the IPAddress in the shutdown call. now i am able to stop service using net stop jbas42svc command. but one problem is temporary files are not deleted. i checked the server.log file. this is the problem area of server.log where tmp files are not removed... 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.server.Server] Deleting server tmp/deploy directory 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6213jboss-annotations-ejb3.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6214jboss-ejb3.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6215jboss-aop-jdk50.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6216jboss-aspect-library-jdk50.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6217trove.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6218jboss-bean-deployer.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6219jboss-container.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6220jboss-dependency.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6221jboss-microcontainer.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6222jasper-jdt.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6223jbossweb-extras.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6229jstl.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,618 DEBUG [org.jboss.util.file.Files] Failed to delete file: C:\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp6234jaxb-api.jar 2008-02-01 17:51:56,711 INFO [org.jboss.system.server.Server] Shutdown complete Thanks, Raghav. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125505#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...