"Service has been marked for deletion"

[Guest]

Someone disabled McAfee McShield service on Windows 2000 SP3 server. When I go into Services snap-in of MMC control panel and select the service, and under Properties try to change Startup Type to either Automatic or Manual from Disabled, I receive the following error message from MMC "The specified service has been marked for deletion" and can not restart the service.

When trying to repair this service with the McAfee instalation disk, I receive an error message stating I don't have permissions to install McShield app (as the Administrator of course I do), and the repair is flushed.

Sounds like I'll have to re-boot the server, hope the re-start deletes the McShield service and then try to reinstall the application. But has anyone run into this before? Why can't I re-enable the service? This has got to have something to do with the registry, but who knows where. If the service is scheduled for deletion, why can't the OS delete the service without a re-boot? Never seen this error before and can't find any reference in the Knowledge Base. Thanks!

 

[BS]

CourtMCSE-

I'd reboot. To me, it sounds like the app was uninstalled but needed a
reboot to complete. Typically, stuff that is only gonna run once will be
stored in the RUNONCE key in the registry (right near the RUN key under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run).

I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't find anything there though. Reboot
and you should be fine.

BS

Someone disabled McAfee McShield service on Windows 2000 SP3 server. When

I go into Services snap-in of MMC control panel and select the service, and
under Properties try to change Startup Type to either Automatic or Manual
from Disabled, I receive the following error message from MMC "The specified
service has been marked for deletion" and can not restart the service.

When trying to repair this service with the McAfee instalation disk, I

receive an error message stating I don't have permissions to install
McShield app (as the Administrator of course I do), and the repair is
flushed.

Sounds like I'll have to re-boot the server, hope the re-start deletes the

McShield service and then try to reinstall the application. But has anyone
run into this before? Why can't I re-enable the service? This has got to
have something to do with the registry, but who knows where. If the service
is scheduled for deletion, why can't the OS delete the service without a
re-boot? Never seen this error before and can't find any reference in the
Knowledge Base. Thanks!