Comments on: The specified service has been marked for deletion

By: lyd

lyd — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:22:17 +0000

thanks! closing Services window and reopening fixed the issue :)

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:05:38 +0000

It’s still good tip even on Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit! Tnx.

By: tytusse

tytusse — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:35:02 +0000

Damn, so no restart needed :)
Thanks!

By: Mahesh R. Kulkarni

Mahesh R. Kulkarni — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:10:38 +0000

Thanks man….this information helped me lot.
I deleted the service using sc delete command but still it was showing in Services.msc as disabled. I was fade up of this thing.Refreshed lots of time.
But this article gave me hint for restarting services.msc.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:59:21 +0000

it too worked for me.. thank you

By: iVKO

iVKO — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:00:47 +0000

Thanks !!!

By: indie-kick

indie-kick — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:28:00 +0000

Great advice , I had services open, closed services down, re-opened services and the mark for deletion was gone.

Then installed remote agent and all working

Good advice – thank you

By: Cristi

Cristi — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:15:04 +0000

Good one!

By: atconway

atconway — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:00:41 +0000

Nice, did the trick! Didnl;t happen all of the time; normally I keep the services window open when uninstalling and then reinstalling, but this time closing and re-opening the window worked. Thank you.

By: Jai

Jai — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:35:30 +0000

Great!
Thanks,
I even ran “sc delete servivename” but kept my service.msc open to see if the services are getting deleted. But it was not. I searched and found your site. It was interesting to note that all what I had to do was just close services.msc

Jai

By: hdrockerroller

hdrockerroller — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:17:36 +0000

The reason this is so is that service.mcs holds open handles to the service being deleted.

From Msdn:
The DeleteService function marks a service for deletion from the service control manager database. The database entry is not removed until all open handles to the service have been closed by calls to the CloseServiceHandle function, and the service is not running. A running service is stopped by a call to the ControlService function with the SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP control code. If the service cannot be stopped, the database entry is removed when the system is restarted.

The service control manager deletes the service by deleting the service key and its subkeys from the registry.

Hope that helps

By: Pavan

Pavan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:10:23 +0000

Thanks. It worked well for me…

By: khushboo Patel

khushboo Patel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:15:41 +0000

Thanks. You have solved my critical problem….

By: LatinSuD

LatinSuD — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:44:33 +0000

From this behaviour it looks like services.msc is holding a kind of lock on services.
This contrasts with the fact that you have to press F5 to update the service list when it changes.
Weird.

By: josepherdon

josepherdon — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:22:13 +0000

thanks.
a great help.
I thought there was something I am missing in my .NET Windows Service project.

Kudos!

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:37:02 +0000

Thanks I would not have figured out such a stupid problem my self. :-)

By: DikShuttle

DikShuttle — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:32:38 +0000

I had the error with only the networks window open. Closed the window… error went with it. Yaaay.

(I was un- & re-installing File & Printer Sharing in XP2SP2)

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:08 +0000

This helped me also :). I would have never thought that this is the problem. Thank you.

By: Kshitij

Kshitij — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:59:20 +0000

Amazing that even after 2 years, this post saved my hours at mid night. I was strugling to figure out how to get those services out, while installation was on. Thanks a ton!

By: Nikolodeon

Nikolodeon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:03:35 +0000

Excellent! clear and simple, thanks a lot