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Author Topic: Services  (Read 4362 times)

Tinman57

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Services
« on: April 21, 2010, 08:50 PM »
OK Brainiacs, what's the best way to delete a service?  I uninstalled a program that left a service, and in Administrative Tools - Services, you can only get the properties, start/stop/etc.  I want to make this service go away.....  :tellme:

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Re: Services
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2010, 09:40 PM »
Stop the service and then go to the registry and delete the key  @  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services key

You could also start CMD and type:
sc delete <service name>
Reboot the system
« Last Edit: April 21, 2010, 09:46 PM by PhilB66 »

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Re: Services
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2010, 06:50 PM »
  Thanks Philb.  I knew about the service controller, just didn't want to use it unless I knew for sure.   :up:

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Re: Services
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2010, 07:09 PM »
If you want to do it allfrom the command line:

SC STOP <service name>
SC DELETE <service name>

Full description of SC is at http://www.microsoft...-us/sc.mspx?mfr=true

or use SC HELP command

You can also stop services with NET STOP <service name>

see NET HELP command for details or see http://technet.micro...ibrary/bb490949.aspx
« Last Edit: April 22, 2010, 07:16 PM by Carol Haynes »

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Re: Services
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2010, 09:21 PM »
  If I had of thought about it I would have gone into my list of XP commands I have on my backup disk...   :-[