well...I assume that stopping and starting the services is a bandaid to resolve a memory leak or other performance issue...some effort should be put into investigating that;
as far as repeating every 3 days, you simply create a task to execute once, and then set it to repeat every 72 hours. that's how you get it to repeat every 3 days.
Lowell
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