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Tinman57:
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:
PhilB66:
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
Tinman57:
Thanks Philb. I knew about the service controller, just didn't want to use it unless I knew for sure. :up:
Carol Haynes:
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.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-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.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490949.aspx
Tinman57:
If I had of thought about it I would have gone into my list of XP commands I have on my backup disk... :-[
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