Timeline for How can I delete a service in Windows?
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| Oct 28, 2023 at 11:33 | comment | added | Edwin | Use "sc.exe" instead of just "sc" if it does or says nothing. | |
| Jun 12, 2023 at 10:26 | history | edited | Fabio says Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a way to check that the name is right
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| Feb 20, 2019 at 22:58 | comment | added | Lasse V. Karlsen | @eglasius Thank @zelusp for that, as he was the one editing it in. | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 10:25 | comment | added | eglasius | Thanks! that note about powershell was epic, quite scary how much time I could have lost without it. | |
| Feb 14, 2019 at 1:24 | history | edited | G S | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed a potential harmful reference to deleting an important service
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| Jan 24, 2019 at 10:24 | comment | added | MovGP0 | on PowerShell, use "C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe" (or "sc.exe") instead of "SC" | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 3:01 | comment | added | Jayani Sumudini | SC STOP shortservicename SC DELETE shortservicename | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 9:37 | comment | added | JohnLBevan | FYI: For PS fans it looks like this has recently been added to PowerShell Core (NB: different to standard PowerShell). Pull Request: github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/4858 Code: github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/src/… | |
| S Jul 17, 2017 at 9:00 | history | suggested | zelusp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
@KFL's comment is valuable enough it should be included in the answer to save on user confusion when their Powershell session doesn't actually do what the original answer implies it would.
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| May 10, 2017 at 9:17 | comment | added | Jan 'splite' K. |
Please note that if service have spaces in name, you have to wrap full name into quotation marks - sc delete "Amazon Assistant Service". Also, the exact service name is to be found in registry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\{xxyy}\DisplayName
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| Feb 24, 2017 at 14:45 | comment | added | andrew pate | If your using powershell... substitute sc.exe instead of sc, otherwise the function returns without removing the service. | |
| S Oct 4, 2015 at 17:38 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Command Prompt still, even under Windows 10, doesn't let you scroll up very far so a lot of services will be unviewable within Command Prompt. My suggestion is to have the data output to a txt file where you can view all the data properly.
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| Oct 4, 2015 at 17:05 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 2, 2015 at 5:14 | comment | added | KFL |
Note that if you're using PowerShell, sc is aliased to set-content. So sc delete service will actually create a file called delete with the content service. To do this in Powershell, use sc.exe delete service instead.
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| S Mar 10, 2015 at 22:57 | history | suggested | Greg Dubicki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
imcorporated last comment into the answer
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| Mar 10, 2015 at 22:52 | comment | added | Greg Dubicki | @tricasse Thank you! I have added your remark to the original answer. | |
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| Jan 26, 2015 at 7:10 | history | edited | Lasse V. Karlsen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added note about administrative rights
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| Jan 25, 2015 at 15:54 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Sep 2, 2014 at 21:05 | comment | added | tricasse |
Use sc query state= all to get the full list of services; basic sc query will not return inactive (aka. disabled) services.
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 19:29 | comment | added | Highway of Life | It should be noted that you have to run CMD as Administrator. (Right click on CMD and choose Run as Administrator) to run many of these commands. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 8:52 | comment | added | Vincent Vancalbergh | I wonder how many sysadmins have already accidentally deleted their SSDPSRV service purely because of this answer :p | |
| Oct 15, 2008 at 14:56 | history | edited | Lasse V. Karlsen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
clarification
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| Sep 16, 2008 at 20:07 | comment | added | sgwill | Oooh, I see, yes. I thought you meant deleting services wasn't recommended. Thanks for the answer! | |
| Sep 16, 2008 at 20:00 | comment | added | Lasse V. Karlsen | Deleting the SSDP Discovery Service? It is used for detecting and configuring UPnP devices on the local network, you should not delete it. It was just used as an example. | |
| Sep 16, 2008 at 19:57 | vote | accept | sgwill | ||
| Sep 16, 2008 at 19:52 | history | edited | Lasse V. Karlsen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 16, 2008 at 19:47 | history | edited | Lasse V. Karlsen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 16, 2008 at 19:41 | history | answered | Lasse V. Karlsen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |