How to remove a dead service in Windows XP

Question

I would like to cleanup a windows service leftover from an application that I uninstalled. The executable for it has been removed, but it is still visible in the services view.

Answer 1

At a command prompt:

sc delete SERVICENAME

See Source: How To Unregister Windows Services

Answer 2

If you have tried the above and it didn't appear to work even though you are positive you typed everything correctly try the following command:

sc query state= all >> "C:\\[Preferred Foldername]\Service_details.LOG"

I found when running the above that, even though the Windows Services MMC showed that the name of the service was one thing, when i piped it to a log file it showed it as another.

Basically, because there was a space in the name, Windwos truncated it to remove the space. So even though it displayed with a space in the Services MMC, in realterms, there shouldn't have been one.

After the above discovery I found that the suggested routine worked a treat!

Thanks for that one Will