How to Unregister a Service? (Housekeeping)

[Ian]

Hi, I installed some trial software and wound up uninstalling it due to
performance issues.

I performed the uninstall via the Control Panel "Add or Remove Programs"
applet, and the uninstall was uneventful.

Subsequent to rebooting I find that there is "residue" from the program - 2
entries in Windows XP Services (Start -> Administrative Tools --> Services)
that at one point started up an integrated database (Borland Interbase). I
have confirmed that the database & dbms software is no longer there. All
that remains is these two entries in Services which would start it up if it
were still there.

How can i "unregister" these two entries from Services? There is no
"delete" in the Services MMC control panel... I would hope there might be a
"NET xxx SERVICES" command to do the trick but I can't find one.

Thanks in advance to the learned individual who can shed some light on this
for me.

 

[David Nimon]

Run services.msc.

Scroll to the two 'offending' services, if they are showing.

If so, right click on each and select 'disable'.

 

[Ian]

Disable just disables the service; it does not delete (i.e. "unregister") it
however. But thanks for your response.

The point of my post is "housekeeping" - i.e. cleaning out cobwebs etc.

 

[Ian]

I found the solution. There is a program called "SC"; it is the
command-line interface to the NT Service Controller.

To delete a service, type:

SC delete [service name]