If you’ve worked with SQL Server prior to the 2005 release you’ve seen the Service Manager. It was a taskbar tool that let you quickly stop and start SQL Server Instances and Services without having to load the SQL Server Enterprise Manager or the Services MMC. Honestly, I hadn’t used it in ages but this morning I wanted to find and stop all SQL Server instances on a development server in order to save on memory usage and host a Virtual Machine. At that point I remembered that it didn’t exist in the SQL Server 2005 or 2008 versions. ...