How to remove orphan windows service

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Neo Gigs

Hello

I had recently uninstalled an application where this
application wrote a windows service, yet after
uninstalled, the service still exists in the Services
control under Computer Management. I had already restarted
my machine.

How to remove that orphan service?

Thanks

Neo
 
Neo,

First try it the nice way:

* try to find the service executable
* If found, see it it has any command line options for uninstalling (for
example /u or -u etc

If the executable is gone, this is the not so nice way:

* open regedit
* open key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services
* Find the key belonging to the service (check the stringvalue
displayname in the key to identify it)
* Write down the name of the executable in imagepath
* Delete the whole key

Now reboot. This will remove the orphan service, to find residue's left
by the service, search your register for the executable that was in the
imagepath value.

have fun!
 
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