Neat tool for starting/stopping multiple services together
Do you have your development machine setup to support any of several combinations of Windows services, which you find yourself starting/stopping in tandem? For example, do you maybe want to sometimes run Apache and Tomcat, or other times IIS and ColdFusion, etc?
A nifty tool called has been written to help solve this very problem:
http://www.shlomygantz.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=C7D6FEE1-40CA-7F8D-8E76EF91F5737896
Called "Service Snapshot Manager" and offered as a free tool to the community by Shlomy Gantz, it creates a system tray icon to help you manage whatever profiles (snapshots) you create. The download page has a nice little 30 second flash audio/video presentation to help depict how it works.
Sure, you could use shortcuts and batch files to achive similar results. This just saves you needing to bother.