Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

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re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:08:20 GMT

Also an easier way to get the service name is to open the services administrative tool and then open the service. At the very top is the actual name of the service along with the display name below it. You need the actual name to delete the service.

Hope this helps you out.

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Tom — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:53:42 GMT

You need to find the actual service name first, then you can do the delete command. If the service is inactive, you can't use the state= all, which doesn't show inactive services. Also, since the services list is so long, you need to "pipe" it to a text file. Here is how:

From command prompt:

sc query state= inactive >services.txt

Find the service name from services.txt, then:

sc \\servername delete servicename

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

MaestroDabla — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:12:16 GMT

Thank you for the information on how to delete a service without having to edit the registry. Good information.

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Bishakha Sinha — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:25:37 GMT

Hi Guys,

There is one easy command for deleting Services in Windows Server 2003.

Instsrv <ServiceName> Remove

Hope it Helps !!

Thanks Much,

Bishakha

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Saurabh Deshpande — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:06:07 GMT

Thanks Guys,

After going through your conversation

I found my solution

Thanks very Much

Saurabh

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Horace Miles — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:10:21 GMT

Thank you for the information on how to delete a service without having to edit the registry. Good information.

Miles

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Brad Shoap — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:55:34 GMT

Thanx you for the post on use of SC to delete a service. Your universal engergy is good!

PEACE

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Pankaj Kathar — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:21:24 GMT

Thanks a lot !!!

sc delete "service_name"

Worked for me... :)

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

chris dolese — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:55:29 GMT

also looking for assitance on how to delete those services where the service name is made up of more than one word ???

thanks

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

AOOMMEN — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:49:42 GMT

My email is aoommen77@yahoo.com, I asked for help in deleting windows service that has more than one word. for example

SQL Server Analysis Services (CSA)

Thanks.

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

AOOMMEN — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:46:23 GMT

Can you tell me how to delete a service form windows 2003 server, I tried sc delete command, but it does not work.

The server name in not just one word, it is like this

SQL Server (CSA)

SQL Server Analysis Services (CSA)

I am not able to delete these. can you help

thanks

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Christine — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:08:32 GMT

How do i enable a disabled service using this command?

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Tina — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:02:08 GMT

Thanks again Nuoyan

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Nuo Yan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:05:09 GMT

In Windows 2000, sc.exe is provided as a resource kit utility. In Windows Server 2003, sc.exe is a buit-in tool.

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Tina — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:44:18 GMT

Hi nuoyan,

Can this file www.dynawell.com/.../sc.zip be used for windows server 2003 or just for windows-2000?

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Tina — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:44:44 GMT

Hi nuoyan,

The information provided was very helpful for me. Thanks a lot to you.

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Nuo Yan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:12:04 GMT

Hi Leigh,

There are several comments in this article (jayseae.cxliv.org/.../manually_remove_a_windows_service.php) seems to be in same situation as your problem.

Some are:

First disable MySQL service, try to desinstall all MySQL packages, delete all files and folders (for MySQL, mysql admin etc) and then use sc command line tool. It works for me.

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The error 1072 (mentioned by James in comment 10) is probably caused by the service being referenced by some other process so it can't be deleted. However, 1072 is "Marked for Deletion" according to my microsoft documentation, and the next time you reboot the service will be deleted.

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re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Leigh — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:03:02 GMT

[SC] DeleteService FAILED 1072:

The specified service has been marked for deletion.

The service is MySQL and it cannot be started or deleted. Any idea what to do next?

re: Deleting services in Windows Server 2003

Akely — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:30:45 GMT

Thanks a bunch! Your article helped me get rid of a service that threw an alert constantly. It turned out to be PfModNT which is a CreativeLabs service. The software is uninstalled but the service still tried to call the files, errors ensued.

Again, thanks!