I am using vista.
And i am using tomcat 6.
But i don't know from where to shutdown and start tomcat 6.
In tomcat 5 i remember there are startup.bat and shutdown.bat files in the bin directory .
But there is nothing like that in tomcat6 .
There are only these files in there:
bootstrap.jar
tomcat6.exe
tomcat6w.exe
tomcat-juli.jar

on executing tomcat6.exe a window appears and goes quickly.. but i can't read any message like .. tomcat has stopped or is started in that window..

Tell me how to shutdown and start tomcat6 in vista.

Oh, just right click tomcat6w.exe.
run as administartor.
A gui window will appear from where to shut down and restart tomcat6.
It is service version of tomcat6. And i cud only make this version run on vista.
Other ones simply did not work on vista.I tried everything i cud!!