Posted in It is rare to have to manually remove a Windows service but on there are times when it is necasarry, like after a bad uninstall or testing beta software. I personally use 1 of 2 methods to remove a service.
Prior to removing any service make sure that it is atleast stopped and better yet disabled. Also make a note on the executable path so that it may be removed after the service is deleted.
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First Method:
Open command prompt and use the “sc” command. in this case we want to delete a service so you would enter the following…
sc delete “service name”
**sc has many other options including an option to create services as well.
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Second Method:
This method truly manual and requires editing the registry via regedit.
All services are located in “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services”
Once located find the service and delete.
Lastly for the change to show in the “Service Snapin” a logoff is required.
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