Batch files to start and stop ColdFusion

As I mentioned in the previous post, I recently wiped out everything and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on my personal laptop. After that, as any self-respecting ColdFusion professional would (kidding...sort of), I installed the Developer's edition of ColdFusion 9 application server and ColdFusion Builder. Also installed the MySQL database server, but that is sort of besides the point for the purposes of this post.

Anyway I was starting to feel pretty happy about my newly setup development environment when I noticed the memory usage slowly starting to go up. That reminded me that running an application server continuously in the background on a personal laptop is probably not a good idea. So initially I created a shortcut to Windows "Component Services" on my desktop and figured I would just start and stop the ColdFusion services as needed. But that was taking about 4 clicks and 80 seconds (yes, I counted) to start/stop all those services. Certainly did not seem to be the most efficient solution.

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