This post was most recently updated on December 11th, 2018
Tool for managing windows services in Windows XP allows you many things, but you can’t unregister (delete, remove) a service with it. There is however a command line tool that allows that.
Remember that unregistering important services may break your system. If you aren’t sure what you’re doing – don’t. You have been warned.
First you need to check real name of the service (not it’s display name). To do this go to Control Panel–>Administrative Tools–>Services, and find the service you want to uninstall. Right click it, and choose “Properties”. Then, on the “General” tab, find “Service Name”. For example for service on the screenshot it’s WLSetupSvc.
Next go to command line and run command ‘sc’, it will enumerate its options. This is the tool, that we’ll use to uninstall the service. To do this type
sc delete SERVICENAME
If everything goes fine, you’ll see command similar to second screenshot, and you’ll computer will continue working.
Run the following from a Dos prompt:
instsrv “%servicename%” “c:\%path to file%\srvany.exe”
Now go to services and find “%servicename%”
choose Properties
In the Description type “maak een description”
Choose logon mode, and set an account to it for example “Administrator”
Click Ok
Click on Start and type Regedt32 > Ok > Find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\%servicename%
Click Edit > Add Key and type Parameters, click OK
Double click on Parameters > Edit and choose Add Value
Add Value = Application
Data Type = REG_SZ
click Ok
String = %filename to start as a service%
click Ok
Double click on Parameters > Edit and choose Add Value
Add Value = AppDirectory
Data Type = REG_SZ
click Ok
String = c: > click Ok
Go to services again and Start the service “%servicename%”