Force-Removing Windows Services

I am getting the following message while trying to remove a windows service with SC command?

C:\Users\chacha>sc delete service_name
[SC] OpenService FAILED 5:

Access is denied.

I tried to change the properties of Service and retried to remove them but failed. Even I disabled the service and restarted the machine :(

Any idea on forcefully removing a service? What is the reason for this "Locking"?

From serverfault Chathuranga Chandrasekara

• Try deleting it's entry from regedit at:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services

  Make sure you reboot afterwards.

  Also:

  • Try removing the service while in safe mode.
  From l0c0b0x

• You could try using Sysinternals Autoruns program to disable or delete the service.

  From

• Did you do that from an elevated command prompt?

  From Roger Lipscombe