{"id":4716,"date":"2015-05-07T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T03:45:36","slug":"how-to-delete-a-windows-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=4716","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete a Windows Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deleting a Service<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you\u2019ll need to do is identify the name of the service, so open up Services through the start menu or control panel, and then find the service in the list that you want to delete.<a href=\"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4717\" src=\"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window.jpg\" alt=\"window\" width=\"573\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window.jpg 573w, https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window-400x186.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll want to open up the properties by double-clicking on the service name, and then highlight the \u201cService name\u201d value and copy it to the clipboard. This is what we\u2019ll need to disable it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4718\" src=\"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window1.png\" alt=\"window1\" width=\"457\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window1.png 457w, https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window1-271x300.png 271w, https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window1-135x150.png 135w, https:\/\/mohan.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/window1-400x443.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\">You\u2019ll need to open up a command prompt, you\u2019ll need to right-click the command prompt and choose Run as Administrator. We\u2019ll use the sc command to actually do the work.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">The syntax used to delete a service is this:<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><b>sc delete ServiceName<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\">If your service name has spaces in it, you\u2019ll need to wrap the service name in quotes, like this:<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><b>sc delete \u201cAdobe LM Service\u201d<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deleting a Service<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you\u2019ll need to do is identify the name of the service, so open up Services through the start menu or control panel, and then find the service in the list that you want to delete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll want to open up the properties by double-clicking on the service name, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}