disabled service?

[Beeeeeeeeeeeeves]

I've got a service that's for some reason decided to disable itself - it can't be stopped and started, and when I try to uninstall it, it says 'the service has been marked for deletion.'. eh??
It actually IS uninstalled - i.e. it hasn't got a file to run installutil /u on, or an entry in add/remove programs, but the service applet thinks it still exists, but marks its status as 'disabled'. How do I get rid of its entry from this list?

I think the problem arose when I put some code in the Stop event that threw an exception, this then caused the applet to think it 'didn't stop in a timely fashion'.
Thanks

[Klaus H. Probst]

See if you can find it under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es. Kill the key and
reboot the box.
--
Klaus H. Probst, MVP
http://www.vbbox.com/
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I've got a service that's for some reason decided to disable itself - it can't be stopped and started, and when I try to uninstall it, it says 'the
service has been marked for deletion.'. eh?? It actually IS uninstalled - i.e. it hasn't got a file to run installutil /u on, or an entry in add/remove programs, but the service applet thinks it
still exists, but marks its status as 'disabled'. How do I get rid of its
entry from this list?
I think the problem arose when I put some code in the Stop event that threw an exception, this then caused the applet to think it 'didn't stop in
a timely fashion'. Thanks