A service in the Microsoft Windows operating system is usually called a program designed to provide the basic capabilities of the OS, which is launched in the background.
Instructions
Step 1
Call the main menu of the Microsoft Windows operating system by clicking the "Start" button and go to the "Control Panel" item to determine all the services running on the computer (by default - about 80).
Step 2
Expand the "Administration" link and select the "Services" item or select the "Run" item to implement an alternative method for stopping the required service.
Step 3
Enter services.msc in the Open field and click OK to confirm the command.
Step 4
Specify the service to be stopped and open its properties dialog box with a double mouse click.
Step 5
Go to the "General" tab of the window that opens and specify the desired action in the drop-down list of the "Startup type" section: - Auto - to automatically start the selected service when the operating system boots; - Manually - to automatically start the selected service when the process calls; - Disabled - for complete prohibition of the service.
Step 6
Press the OK button to confirm your choice or return to the main Start menu to perform the operation of stopping the selected service in another way using the sc tool.
Step 7
Go to Run and enter cmd in the Open field to launch the Command Prompt utility.
Step 8
Call the context menu of the found element by clicking the right mouse button and specify the command "Run as administrator".
Step 9
Confirm the command execution by pressing the Enter function key and enter the value sc stop service_name to stop the selected service or sc delete service_name to completely delete the selected service in the command line test field.
Step 10
Confirm the execution of the service deletion command by pressing the Enter function key or return to the main Start menu to perform the service deletion procedure using the Registry Editor tool.
Step 11
Go to Run and enter regedit in the Open field.
Step 12
Confirm the execution of the editor launch command by clicking OK and open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServices registry branch.
Step 13
Specify the folder with the value of the name of the selected service and delete it.
