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How to Delete Windows Service?
Author: HP Fuchs | Category: Windows
On my Windows 2003 test server I install and remove a lot of Oracle and SQL Server software. I create and drop databases a lot. Usually I work in a rush on that server, so removing instances and software isn’t always so clean. Sometimes a windows services sticks and cannot be removed. It has to be cleaned up manually. The easiest way to remove windows services is deleting their entries in the registry. All windows services are listed under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services
Once you delete an entry its service is removed and will not show up in the services panel anymore after a system reboot.
December 7th, 2007.
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September 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Thank you for your tip regarding removing services in the Services panel. I too install Oracle many times on the same machine got a build up list of Oracle services on the panel. Now, I was able to remove all the unwanted ones.
June 6th, 2008 at 2:29 am
That is definitely not the recommended way. To delete a service use the command line tool sc. For instance
sc delete OracleServiceORCL
June 9th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Hallo Stefan
You are right. I learned about the sc (service control) windows shell command only recently at my new job. Thanks for pointing out.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
HI everyone, i commend by saying the solution is/was superb. i was able to totally remove the oracle services giving me headache. please can you tell me the reason why dbca and net configuration assistant will not install during oracle installation