How do you remove a service?

Hobbes

I know you can stop windows services with NET STOP and NET START.

But how do you remove them from the list?

I have a couple of services in the list from programs that don't exist anymore. I have disabled but I want to clean up the list.

lynchie

The should be list under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services

Alternatively, on the resource kit cd (if you have a copy of it ) there should be a utility call srvinstw.exe (GUI prog) which should allow you to add/remove services.

Xterminator

If you go into services in control panel/admin tools
you can set the service to manual.

Then it will only start when you manually activate it.

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Kali

afaik there is no services tool in control panel under windows 95/98.. the registry change is the best bet for 98, and will work under NT as well.

Mutor_CS

It's probably in the RunService registry key. Path is something like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunService. This allow apps to start before user logon.

This tool - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml - lets you turn on and off entries in your registry run/runservice keys, INIs and Startup folder.
I'd advise you to use that instead of hacking the registry.

Dun

You can also add/remove services under X-Setup (a free tweaking app for all versions of Windows). If you don't wanna go registry hacking yourself, it's a nice front-end.

http://xteq.digitaldaze.com/products/xset/

Dun

Forgot to say you can also just disable a service so it's not run - handy if you want to just stop it, not remove it.