Script help - Restarting a service Daily

Hello All,
I would like some advice/help on creating a script which would restart a specfic service daily on a server- This may be required to run at a certain time - but finding it difficult getting started initially.
I am guesing I would need to create a scheduled task create a scheduled task that runs a script.ps1
script.ps1
stop-service "service"
start-service "service"
Does anyone know of any written scripts that can get myself started - for example re-starting the print spooler script everyday at 08:00am etc.
Many thanks
Regards
QMU

I think you pretty much answered your own question. If you are just looking for a simple restart service script, then you already have it. You could look at using
Restart-Service instead as it will stop and start the service.
Restart-Service -Name 'Service'
All you need to do is create the scheduled job and specify powershell.exe as the program to run and then use
-File <path to script> as the arguments.
Lots of information about PowerShell and scheduled jobs here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/scheduled+tasks/default.aspx
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Hey Boe -
Many thanks mate - thanks for the link also.
I was just confused about the timing issue(which I thought would in script itself) and how to call the actual script - both which I am now able to do.
Many thanks
QMU

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