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I have so many SQL Server instances on my local machine others in my home office that I wanted one place to start and stop them all. I liked the start-stop functionality in the SQL Server agent, but I have MSDE instances and SQL Server 2005 instances running too, so a single place to do it all from an icon tray was my goal. So here I’ve created a simple .NET 2.0 application. I would have done it with 1.1 to make it more accessible for users, but there were some features I needed in 2.0 to make the app work. So if you have the .NET 2.0 Framework installed, check out this new app to control multiple instances of SQL Server a mouse-click away: