REMOVE A WINDOWS SERVICE

You can easily remove a Windows service from the Windows registry using a simple command prompt command called SC .

SC is the command line utility which interacts with the Windows Service Controller and can being used to manage serv ICES on either a remote or local Windows machine.

You'll need to find the name of the service would like to remove before you can issue the SC command to REM Ove it. You can either use the Windows service console or the sc query command to find the name of a Service.

Click the Start menu and type in Services and click the WindowsServices console in the list. Find your service by name and double click it to see the Properties window. The service name can be seen at the top of the form. The below example shows the Skype Updaterservice.

To use the sc query command to find your service name, open up a command prompt and type the below command.

sc query

Find the service_name attribute of your required SERVICE.

Once You has the service name, you'll need to stop the service before you can delete it. Issue the sc stop Command followed by the service name. The below example show how to stop the skypeupdate service.

sc stop skypeupdate

Finally, you can issue the sc delete command to remove the service.

SC Remove Skypeupdate

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REMOVE A WINDOWS SERVICE