Command remove windows service

See my solution : — johan. I actually like user 's solution even better. Nice and clean. It did the trick for me on a machine where I didn't have any permission to edit the registry. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge.

Tan Tan 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. Fernando Gonzalez Sanchez Fernando Gonzalez Sanchez 3, 3 3 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. Error Code: 2 ". Despite ensuring all other MMCs were closed and no other users logged-in. THAT finally solved my problem. I forgot to add a service installer in the project and could not remove my service after the installation. I recommend doing a export of the service reg tree before deleting anything in it.

Thanks a lot! You need to do: sc. Richard Richard 2, 4 4 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. You saved me. I was doing sc delete on powershell — mandy Alper Ebicoglu Alper Ebicoglu 7, 1 1 gold badge 39 39 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. Dmitry Dmitry 1 1 silver badge 10 10 bronze badges. I am late, but would like to add an alternative, which may look strange, but I didn't see another way: As I install my Windows Services in a CI process each night, I needed something that works all the time and is completely automated.

Oguzhan Kircali Oguzhan Kircali 5 5 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Jer Jer 1. Unsliced Unsliced There are plenty of forum questions in that subject. On windows 7 it solved my problem. I do: stop service close handle uninstall service wait 3 sec copy new exe to the directory install the service start service close handle. Gabor Balazs Gabor Balazs 1. Where do you get the handle to close if your not in the program that has the open handle?

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