How do I uninstall a program that is run as a service

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I can uninstall the program, but the servcie remains. How do I get rid of
the service?

I can't find anything on the Microsoft site or in a internet search. I
can't be the first person to encounter this situation... can I?
 
InSpokane said:
I can uninstall the program, but the servcie remains. How do I get rid of
the service?

I can't find anything on the Microsoft site or in a internet search. I
can't be the first person to encounter this situation... can I?
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The service should be removed when the uninstall takes place.
What software is it? Were there errors when you uninstalled?
 
Bob said:
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OS is Vista Home Premium
Software is EasyPHP which runs Apache and MySQL as services.

The uninstall of EasyPHP appeared to work. No errors or other messages.
Apache and MySQL are still services.

I tried re-installing EasyPHP. Installed smoothly.
Shutdown all services.
Uninstalled a second time.
No error messages.
Apache and MySQL services still showing up.

Suggestions?
 
InSpokane said:
OS is Vista Home Premium
Software is EasyPHP which runs Apache and MySQL as services.

The uninstall of EasyPHP appeared to work. No errors or other messages.
Apache and MySQL are still services.

I tried re-installing EasyPHP. Installed smoothly.
Shutdown all services.
Uninstalled a second time.
No error messages.
Apache and MySQL services still showing up.

Suggestions?
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I also spent many hours searching the microsoft web site for information, as
well as internet seraches. What I have found is that uninstalling the
program is supposed to remove all traces. What I see is that the services
remain. I can't find anything on removing services or uninstalling services
or deleting services. If someone has any suggestions or a direction to
point me, I'd be glad to do the research, I have run out of my own ideas.
 
InSpokane said:
I also spent many hours searching the microsoft web site for information,
as
well as internet seraches. What I have found is that uninstalling the
program is supposed to remove all traces. What I see is that the services
remain. I can't find anything on removing services or uninstalling
services
or deleting services. If someone has any suggestions or a direction to
point me, I'd be glad to do the research, I have run out of my own ideas.
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Are Apache and MySQL still showing as installed products?
 
You could try downloading Autoruns from sysinternals:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Once you've got it running, click the services tab, find the offending
service, right-click and delete. Service gone. Reboot.

Personally I'd uncheck the service in the autoruns application and reboot
first. This should disable the service so it can be enabled again if anything
else is relying on it.
 
Jay said:
Are Apache and MySQL still showing as installed products?
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Hi Jay,

Apache and MySQL do not show up in the list of programs, but they show up in
the list of services. Is that what you meant by 'installed products"?
 
Hi Chris,

Apparently, Autoruns only displays on services that are running. I
reinstalled EasyPHP so Apache and MySQL were both running, deleted both
services using Autoruns, and un-installed EasyPHP again. Success! Thank you.

I was sure that nothing else was using either of those 2 services because I
could see that the services were being run from the EasyPHP folder... which
didn't exist.

-- Evelyn
 
Hi Jay,

Apache and MySQL do not show up in the list of programs, but they show up
in
the list of services. Is that what you meant by 'installed products"?
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Been a long time since I uses Apache and never MySQL so can't point you to a
specific location.
Do they still have folders under program files.
Try searching for MySQL on your file system. Perhaps all you uninstalled was
the application that allowed these 2 products to work under Windows rather
than the 2 products themselves
 
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