disabled service?

[Guest]

I've got a service that's for some reason decided to disable itself - it can't be stopped and started, and when I try to uninstall it, it says 'the service has been marked for deletion.'. eh??
It actually IS uninstalled - i.e. it hasn't got a file to run installutil /u on, or an entry in add/remove programs, but the service applet thinks it still exists, but marks its status as 'disabled'. How do I get rid of its entry from this list?

I think the problem arose when I put some code in the Stop event that threw an exception, this then caused the applet to think it 'didn't stop in a timely fashion'.
Thanks

 

[Klaus H. Probst]

See if you can find it under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services. Kill the key and
reboot the box.


--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP
http://www.vbbox.com/

I've got a service that's for some reason decided to disable itself - it

can't be stopped and started, and when I try to uninstall it, it says 'the
service has been marked for deletion.'. eh??

It actually IS uninstalled - i.e. it hasn't got a file to run installutil

/u on, or an entry in add/remove programs, but the service applet thinks it
still exists, but marks its status as 'disabled'. How do I get rid of its
entry from this list?

I think the problem arose when I put some code in the Stop event that

threw an exception, this then caused the applet to think it 'didn't stop in
a timely fashion'.