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Deleting a service permanently

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by rhiegen

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Dear Friends,

I have a service called stinger running on my Win2kpro and I don?t know what is causing it to start and run every time I log on. I am able to stop it but I would like to know how can I find the files related to the services shown inwin2k pro task manager. Consider, for example, a service that is not a commom Win2k service and I am unable to guess where does it come from. How can I find the dll or other file linked to the service which is running in my task manager.

Thank you in advance,

Paulo

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by saihib

Right click My Computer. Select Manage. Open Services. Right click on Stinger. Select Properties. Under the General tab look for Path to Executable, and it will tell you what starts the service. Delete it.

by hberkhoff

All services can be found in the registry under :

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Here you can find the executable or DLL which is starting through the services. To get rid of it is very easy, just delete the entry in the registry. After a reboot the entry is gone within the Services, and it does not come back.

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