Vista - How to delete a Windows Service?

Hello everyone,


My following code could correctly enumerate all the services on my local
machine, but how to remove/uninstall a service by its name? I found quite
some time in MSDN for ServiceController, but failed to find one. Any ideas?

foreach ($ServiceItem in Get-Service)
{
$ServiceItem.DisplayName
}


regards,
George

Thanks Shay,


It works cool! A further question, I have also used the wmi object to
retrieve the executable path name. by using the PathName property. But it
contains both the executable name and related parameters like
"C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalService". How to get only the
executable binary name (I just want C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe)?


regards,
George

Hello George,


Try with WMI:

$svc = gwmi win32_service -filter "name='alerter'"
$svc.delete()


Beware, there is no turning back or any confirmation messages.


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Shay Levy
Windows PowerShell MVP
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ScriptFanatic

G> Hello everyone,
G>
G> My following code could correctly enumerate all the services on my
G> local machine, but how to remove/uninstall a service by its name? I
G> found quite some time in MSDN for ServiceController, but failed to
G> find one. Any ideas?
G>
G> foreach ($ServiceItem in Get-Service)
G> {
G> $ServiceItem.DisplayName
G> }
G> regards,
G> George

Use IndexOf() to find the first space position and then substring() to return
all characters until that position:


PS > $svc = gwmi win32_service -filter "name='alerter'"
PS > $svcFilePath = $svc.pathName.substring(0,$svc.pathName.indexOf(" "))
PS > $svcFilePath
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe



You can also use the split() method and return the first index item (e.g
0 position), split() breaks the string on the space character by default:

PS > $svc.pathName.split()[0]
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe




---
Shay Levy
Windows PowerShell MVP
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ScriptFanatic

G> Thanks Shay,
G>
G> It works cool! A further question, I have also used the wmi object to
G> retrieve the executable path name. by using the PathName property.
G> But it contains both the executable name and related parameters like
G> "C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalService". How to get only
G> the executable binary name (I just want
G> C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe)?
G>
G> regards,
G> George

Thanks Shay,


I like your reply! :-)


regards,
George

Hi Oisin,


I read through the information you posted for sc. Which option do you mean
could serve my purpose? I read through but none of them dealing with
executable path name. Any ideas?


regards,
George

On Aug 26, 2:46*am, George <Geo...@xxxxxx> wrote:Sorry George - it looks like sc.exe has the same info:

C:\>sc.exe qc w3svc
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: w3svc
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k
iissvcs
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : World Wide Web Publishing Service
DEPENDENCIES : WAS
: HTTP
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

"George" <George@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1E539DAE-8356-4932-8917-DC32E3DA3603@xxxxxxPerhaps it would help if you explained why identifying a service
has to be done that way? E.g. why not do it by service name?
Then you could use sc config, stop, and delete (if desired)
to control it.

; )

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Thanks Robert!


My situation is, I have installed multiple my self cooked monitor service,
called TestMonitor1, TestMonitor1.1 and TestMonitor1.3. I want to list all
the services which contains name "TestMonitor" and delete all matched ones.
So, I can not use an exact name.

Any ideas to my question?


regards,
George

"George" <George@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5E3BEE4D-598A-40E5-8594-7F32F18EC2A5@xxxxxxDo they all run under the same host?
E.g. see if this command would list what you want to see:

tasklist /svc /fi "Imagename eq <your host>"


Good luck

Robert
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