Remove windows service

[Fragman]

Dear all,

I am running with windows xp service pack2 and some of the problem related to the software services.I installed the oracle database management system(express edition) on windows and because if some space needed in C drive i uninstalled it.

now the problem is that when I was just looking into my services windows for getting another description,I got that the services of oracle is still listed in windows.I need to remove it,how can I do this.

thanks.

[Eric B]

This is very unexpected error generated by the system.The services should be managed by the windows it self.

Actually,whenever you create or install any software and releases it on the windows platform,The related services to the softwares are being created automatically and whenever you uninstall the existing software,The related services are being deleted automatically.

You installed the software and uninstalled after that but the services still existed yet.You can delete the services manually from the windows registry.

[Glenny]

To delete the services manually from the windows system,you need to follow some steps.The system services can be controlled from the services window resides in the control panel.there are few steps to delete the services -

1- Click on the start menu and select RUN from the list.
2- Click on the RUN,a run box would be appeared type Regedit or regedt32.
3- Find the registry entry like -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services
4- Find the appropriate service and delete it.
5- Restart the computer system and check the service now.

[JonathanD]

It's depends on you whatever you space choose to delete the unnecessary services from the services window.The existing services can be deleted from the command prompt in windows.You need to issue the command for that and would be deleted as you will specify.

Just go to start menu and choose RUN and type command in RUN box.The DOS prompt would be open and keep the service name with you or you can access it from the services,now type the following -

C:\> sc delete < SERVICE name>

[Macarenas]

creating windows service manually

You can create a new service in windows services but that should be able to identified by the windows system.The service can be created from the command prompt.issue the following command to create the service.

C:\> sc create <SERVICE name>

if you need to locate the path for the service then you can locate with the appropriate address of the services.

[ThoMas321]

Accessing windows service

The existing windows services can be accessed and you can do different type of operations on that.If you need to allow some services to be start and stop,you can do it very easily within the GUI.

You can look into the control panel =>administrative tools and then choose services icon,After clicking on the icon,you would be see so many services would be listed in the windows.you can perform some operation like -starting,stopping,disabling,enabling,etc from the properties of every services.