If you lot are a fan of tweaking your system and disabling services, you might find that over time your Windows Services listing becomes large and unwieldy. It's easy plenty to delete a Windows service using the Command Prompt.

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A big warning, though. When y'all delete a service, it's gone—and services can exist a real pain to get dorsum. We really don't recommend deleting services at all, unless yous're dealing with a very particular situation like cleaning up later on a program uninstalled improperly or rooting out a malware infestation. Typically, only disabling a service is plenty, particularly if all you're actually trying to practice is tweak your system operation (which probably won't work also as yous might hope, anyway).  That said, if you practice demand to delete a service, you only demand to find the bodily name of that service so outcome a single command from the Command Prompt.

The techniques we're covering here should piece of work in pretty much any version of Windows—from XP all the fashion up through ten.

Step One: Find the Name of the Service Y'all Desire to Delete

The first thing you'll need to practice is identify the full name of the service yous want to delete. In our example, nosotros're using the RetailDemo service—a curious thing that activates a hidden command for changing Windows into a retail service mode (and pretty much erasing all personal docs and resetting your PC to information technology'south default state), and so it's actually a adept example of a service yous might non desire around.

Striking Start, blazon "services" into the search box, and then click the "Services" result.

In the "Services" window, ringlet down and find the service y'all're afterwards. Right-click the service and choose the "Properties" command.

In the service'due south properties window, re-create (or write downward) the text to the correct of the "Service name" entry.

When you have the service's name, you can become ahead and close the properties window and the "Services" window.

Stride Two: Delete the Service

Now that y'all have the name of the service you desire to delete, you'll demand to open the Control Prompt with administrative privileges to exercise the deleting.

Click Starting time, and and then type "cmd" into the search box. Correct-click the "Command Prompt" result, and then choose the "Run equally administrator" control.

At the Command Prompt, you'll apply the following syntax:

sc delete                ServiceName

And so, to delete the "RetailDemo" service we're using in our instance, nosotros'd type the following text, and then hit Enter:

sc delete RetailDemo

Note: If the service you're deleting has whatsoever spaces in the proper name, you'll have to enclose the proper name in quotes when you lot type the command.

Now, if yous use the F5 key to refresh your Services listing, you lot'll see that the service is gone.

Deleting a service in Windows is pretty easy, but nosotros'd again like to circumspection you lot to think long and hard earlier deleting a service, considering it'due south very difficult to get them back once they're gone.