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Services - Delete

How to Delete a Service in Vista
Published by Brink
09-27-2008

How to Delete a Service in Vista
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  This will show you how to delete a service of your choice from the Services window.
NOTE
  This can be handy if a program (ex: antivirus) that you installed added a service, and it was not removed from Services due to it not uninstalling properly, or you just want to delete unused services to make it easier to modify the other services.
WARNING
  Once you delete a service, it is gone from Vista. I would strongly recommend that you create a restore point before doing this just in case you need to restore the deleted service. The only other way to restore the deleted service is to reinstall Vista, or the program that added the service.
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Here's How:
1. Open the Start Menu.

2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type services and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
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3. Click on Continue in the UAC prompt.

4. Right click on the service you want to delete and click on Properties. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: If the service is not set to Stopped and Disabled, then you will need to do this first. For how, see: How to Disable or Enable Vista Services with an Advice Guide
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5. Right click on the service name and click on Copy, then click on the Cancel button. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: This is to add the service name to the clipboard so that we can paste it in the command prompt later in step 8. The exact service name in Properties (step 4) must be used in the command prompt.
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6. Close the Services window. (See screenshot below step 4)

7. Open a elevated command prompt.

8. In the elevated command prompt, type sc delete "(right click and click on Paste from step 5)" and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: For example, If I want to delete the service name RemoteRegistry (step 5), I would type:
sc delete "RemoteRegistry" and press Enter.
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9. Close the elevated command prompt when done.
NOTE: When you open Services again, the deleted service will no longer be listed.
That's it,
Shawn

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