Start Stop SharePoint 2010 services

You may have known that developing SharePoint 2010 on local developer workstation (Win 7) is possible. Then it comes to a need to save RAM for other applications when you are not actively working with SharePoint coding. The best set up for my case is as follow:

1. Set SharePoint related services start up type to Manual
2. Start / Stop those services when needed

For this kind of set up, I've run across Emmanuel's blog. The steps are well explained and the PowerShell scripts work nicely. Check it out, sure you will need it sometime.

The scripts