Manually remove a service

[Steve Gould]

I had a third party program that failed to remove its service when I
uninstalled it. Reinstalling and uninstalling still didn't remove the
service. Does anyone know a way to remove a service manually?

Steve

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I had a third party program that failed to remove its service when I
uninstalled it. Reinstalling and uninstalling still didn't remove the
service. Does anyone know a way to remove a service manually?

Hi

Delete the registry key that belongs to the service, you should find
it as a subkey here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

 

[David H. Lipman]

Use the Win2K Resource Kit utility DELSRV.EXE

If the name of the service is; MyServiceName

Use; delsrv MyServiceName

In addition:
If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged, email address then you have invited the
Swen Internet worm [aka; W32/Gibe-F] to visit you.

The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is called this is because the Swen worm
harvests email addresses from UseNet News Groups. It has an engine that allows it to post
itself to UseNet News Groups as well as it has its own email engine. From the list of
email addresses that it has harvested, it will then email itself to those addresses.

Dave



| I had a third party program that failed to remove its service when I
| uninstalled it. Reinstalling and uninstalling still didn't remove the
| service. Does anyone know a way to remove a service manually?
|
| Steve
|
|

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Use the Win2K Resource Kit utility DELSRV.EXE

It's available in the free part of it:

Windows 2000 / Technical Resources / Resource Kits / Free Tool Downloads
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/default.asp

 

[Steve Gould]

Worked great. Turns out I had the resource kit on my management PC. Copied
it to the server, ran the utility, and voila, service gone.

Thanks,

Steve