Services Manager lists invalid services

[csteinhilber]

The Services Manager in my Windows 2000 SP4 laptop lists several services that are no longer valid. They have long since been removed/uninstalled from the system... yet they still appear in the Services list (ineffective uninstallers, I suppose).

I've run several registry cleaners to try to get rid of these phantom entries, but nothing seems to have any effect. So I'm thinking the problem isn't in the registry. But maybe someone has other ideas.

I'm 100% positive that the entries aren't valid because the "Paths to executables" in the properties for these entries don't even exist anymore.

Anyone know of a ute or manual process to get rid of these services from the list?

Thanks in advance,
-Carl

 

[bcastner]

Use regedit and Navigat to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

You will find on key for each service.
Locate the key for the service(s) you wish to remove, right-click, delete

Restart the computer.