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How To Delete/Remove Services In Windows XP and Vista
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prateek
#1 Posted : Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:49:38 AM(UTC)
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is there a dos / windows command for removing a service? i am not talking about stopping, i want to completly delete it, with reg entries.
couldn't find out how to manage that
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:57:57 AM(UTC)
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You may also want to stop the service, if it is running, this will kill all the running processes for it.

Step 1: Open a command prompt, by going to Start –> Run and type in “cmd” without the quotes and hit the Enter key.

Step 2: Type the command “sc delete service name” without the quotes, replace service name, with the name of the service you copied in step 3.

Once a service has been deleted you should see a message saying “[SC] DeleteService SUCCESS”, this should mean that the service has been deleted, to ensure that, just click on the refresh button in the services applet and confirm that the service has been deleted.

These are the only steps you require to delete services in Windows XP and Windows Vista, you do not require to install or download additional softwares to do it.

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#3 Posted : Friday, September 03, 2010 3:45:53 AM(UTC)
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I tried the above method but it throws an error that 'Access is denied' even though i m logged in as Administrator.
Is there any other method?
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#4 Posted : Friday, September 03, 2010 3:47:25 AM(UTC)
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Here is the error :

C:\Windows>sc delete ServerMonitoringService
[SC] OpenService FAILED 5:

Access is denied.
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#5 Posted : Friday, September 03, 2010 3:51:20 AM(UTC)
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Ok....

Try this:

1) Use the command Net Stop "service name" to stop the service.
2) Type 'regedit' in start->run and then delete the appropriate key in the registry under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services.

Also, you might want to find your service in registry Editor for any other entries and delete them too.

And then restart your system and the service should have gone from your system.
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#6 Posted : Friday, September 03, 2010 3:52:31 AM(UTC)
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Thanks for prompt reply...this reg edit method worked for me...
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#7 Posted : Tuesday, December 07, 2010 7:24:11 PM(UTC)
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Thanks...this regEdit method works..
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#8 Posted : Friday, April 13, 2012 8:38:29 AM(UTC)
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go to run and type cmd
then type sc delete service name
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