programmatically removing a service

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I would like to write a program that can remove a windows service and I do
not wish to use the windows installer. Can someone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks
 
J Childs said:
I would like to write a program that can remove a windows service and I do
not wish to use the windows installer. Can someone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks
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This program exists it's called sc.exe (Service Controller) and included
with the system, just call it using Process.Start using the correct
argments.
run sc from the command line to get a list of options.

Willy.
 
J Childs said:
I would like to write a program that can remove a windows service and I do
not wish to use the windows installer. Can someone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks
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A service is nothing more than a bunch of registry entries. Look at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\[whatever]

David
 
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