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Removing A Windows Service

  • 02-11-2005 4:13pm
    #1
    CapatalisimCod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    Recentely bought a retrospect Maxtor one touch II external hard drive, however I only use it now and again to back up the laptop.

    I recently noticed that the sevice was killing me at startup so disabled the service but now at startup the icon is still in the system tray and its still active on the task list but the status is disabled in services. There is no option in the settings for the hard drive to disable auto startup.

    Am I missing something,any help would be great,cheers


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    What service is that? Generally for most kind of drives software is not needed. I have an external DVD, Hard Drive and memory card reader and none of them needed extra software. Even the USB memory stick worked without installing any kind of drivers.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    did it come with it's own drivers ?

    I like autoruns to list what starts up.

    also xp power toys can be used to turn off the autorun on the HDD (the opposite problem where it spend ages looking through your external drive looking for programs to run and images to show, just in case there are any new viruses or stuff :rolleyes: )


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    to remove a service best to download resource kit utils

    Instsrv.EXE MyService Remove

    BTW: srvany.exe is an app that can be started as a service and then startup a normal app, so as to have it run as a service


  • #5
    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    Start>run "services.msc"

    Sometimes there is information there that can help.

    You can definately stop the services from there though.


  • #6
    azzeretti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    what os are you using? there is a chance that the icon is not a service but is running from the local user registry key or the all user startup folder. If you are using 98, xp or millenium you can click start >run and type msconfig. In the startup tab disable the process by name. If you are using nt or 2000 you may have to manually edit the registry, let me know if you need help doing this.


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  • #7
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    azzeretti wrote:
    If you are using nt or 2000 you may have to manually edit the registry, let me know if you need help doing this.
    or use AutoRuns from www.sysinternals.com


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