Adding to Frank's excellent advice:
Here are some alternate methods to remove an unwanted service.
You may use the "SC DELETE <...>" command-line to delete a service.
Microsoft Windows XP - SC:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sc.mspx
SC
Communicates with the Service Controller and installed services. SC.exe
retrieves and sets control information about services. You can use SC.exe
for testing and debugging service programs. Service properties stored in the
registry can be set to control how service applications are started at boot
time and run as background processes. SC.exe parameters can configure a
specific service, retrieve the current status of a service, as well as stop
and start a service. You can create batch files that call various SC.exe
commands to automate the startup or shutdown sequence of services. SC.exe
provides capabilities similar to Services in the Administrative Tools item
in Control Panel.
To do this manually (registry editing), read below:
The Service and driver entries are present under this registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services]
Each sub-key represents a driver or a Service. To modify/delete a 3rd party
service, click Start, Run and type REGEDIT to open the Registry Editor and
navigate to the above location.You should be able to identify them easily by
reading the "DisplayName" and "ImagePath" fields in the right-pane in the
Registry Editor.
Note: Before modifying / removing a Service, create a System Restore point
or a complete Registry backup, just in case something happens.
[ERUNT] Registry Backup and Restore for Windows
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
[ERUNT Download URLs]
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/erunt-setup.exe
[Installing & Using ERUNT]
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
I use "autoruns" from
www.sysinternals.com which controls much more than
msconfig.
Frank
