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How to get rid of Reporting services from Services.Msc after uninstall.

  • November 16, 2011 at 4:42 am

    #246969

    Hello,

    I hope someone can help me out. I have removed everything SQL (SQL Server 2005 R2 64bit, SP3) from my server (Windows 2008 R2), but for some reason Reporting services is still in Services.msc. Why is this, and can I remove it? Its annoying.

    UPDATE: Just restarted the server and the service started up. Nothing in add/remove programs regarding anything SQL. NOt sure what to do now as I need to reinstall. By the way, was uninstalling a named instance and reinstalling as a default instance.

    Thanks for any help.

    Regards,

    D.

  • November 16, 2011 at 6:06 am

    #1408428

    Weird. If I understand correctly, you say that the service status is "started" after a reboot.

    What executable does the service point to?

    To get rid of the service, you can use:

    SC DELETE "serviceName"

    Hope this helps

    Gianluca

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • November 16, 2011 at 8:24 am

    #1408595

    Hello, thanks for getting back.

    Its pointing to

    D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin\ReportingServicesService.exe"

    Dont understand why (or how) its starts. I hope it does not interfere with the new default install of RS. I wonder if I could just delete the above out of windows explorer (or rename it). Its all still there in the registry as well.

    Regards,

    D

  • November 16, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    #1408903

    Have you tried with SC? It should delete the service.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • November 17, 2011 at 1:46 am

    #1409019

    Hello,

    Yes, I'm going to do that, I thought I would wait and see if anything came back from my other reply just a precaution.

    Thanks,

    D.

  • November 17, 2011 at 5:33 am

    #1409107

    Hello,

    Probably a silly question, but whereabouts do I run that command?

    Regards,

    D.

  • November 17, 2011 at 6:35 am

    #1409149

    From command prompt:

    SC DELETE ServiceName

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • November 17, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    #1409594

    Most likely there are registry files remaining.

    reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90" /f

    reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90" /f

    There are other keys under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server

    A Google search can give you the full listing.

    Chris Powell

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    Elroy: Nope.
    George: Then lie to me and say you're kidding.

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