Removing a service that cannot start

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Joe McArthur

My Event Viewer shows a repeating system error event for the "Process Tree
Service" (source: Service Control Manager). It fails to start because the
specified file cannot be found. I intentially deleted the files related to
this service; now I'd like to get the system to stop trying to start the
service, and thereby cause the error. How to? Thanks.

Joe
 
Remove from HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services.

HTH,
Daniel

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: My Event Viewer shows a repeating system error event for the "Process Tree
: Service" (source: Service Control Manager). It fails to start because the
: specified file cannot be found. I intentially deleted the files related
to
: this service; now I'd like to get the system to stop trying to start the
: service, and thereby cause the error. How to? Thanks.
:
: Joe
 
Replace the files and then uninstall it (or disable it) properly.

sc from the Resource Kit can uninstall a service. See:
sc help config

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