Manually Removing a Dead Service on Windows XP

Over a year ago, I uninstalled Apache2Triad from my Windows XP box.
Today I'm trying to install MySQL and it keeps telling me that MySQL is
already being run by Apache. I looked at the Services and sure enough,
the service shows up but it is disabled. The apache files are long
gone. Why didn't the Apache uninstaller not remove those services? I
don't know.

How would I go about manually removing this service since I no longer
have access to the actual Apache files?

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:43:59 -0600, "O.B." <funkjunk@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

>Over a year ago, I uninstalled Apache2Triad from my Windows XP box.
>Today I'm trying to install MySQL and it keeps telling me that MySQL is
>already being run by Apache. I looked at the Services and sure enough,
>the service shows up but it is disabled. The apache files are long
>gone. Why didn't the Apache uninstaller not remove those services? I
>don't know.

Neither do I. I guess if it was installed by Triad it should have
been uninstalled by the Triad uninstaller (if any, I never used
Triad).

>How would I go about manually removing this service since I no longer
>have access to the actual Apache files?

Win XP has a command line tool for that: sc.exe
Syntax:
sc delete [Servicename]
sc /?

There is an entry on sc in helpcenter.

You may have to get the servicename first with one of the query
functions of sc. The displayname of the service may be different
from its identifying name.

Good luck.

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) Kees Nuyt
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