You have at least three options. I have presented them in order of usage preference.
Method 1 - You can use the SC tool (Sc.exe) included in the Resource Kit.
(included with Windows 7/8)
Open a Command Prompt and enter
sc delete <service-name>
Tool help snippet follows:
DESCRIPTION:
SC is a command line program used for communicating with the
NT Service Controller and services.
delete----------Deletes a service (from the registry).
Method 2 - use delserv
Download and use delserv command line utility. This is a legacy tool developed for Windows 2000. In current Window XP boxes this was superseded by sc described in method 1.
Method 3 - manually delete registry entries (Note that this backfires in Windows 7/8)
Windows services are registered under the following registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
Search for the sub-key with the service name under referred key and delete it. (and you might need to restart to remove completely the service from the Services list)
You don't need installutil.exe
and probably you don't even have rights to redistribute it.
Here is the way I'm doing it in my application:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration.Install;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (System.Environment.UserInteractive)
{
string parameter = string.Concat(args);
switch (parameter)
{
case "--install":
ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
break;
case "--uninstall":
ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { "/u", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
break;
}
}
else
{
ServiceBase.Run(new WindowsService());
}
}
Basically you can have your service to install/uninstall on its own by using ManagedInstallerClass
as shown in my example.
Then it's just matter of adding into your InnoSetup script something like this:
[Run]
Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--install"
[UninstallRun]
Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--uninstall"
Best Answer
You can use
sc start [service]
to start a service andsc stop [service]
to stop it. With some servicesnet start [service]
is doing the same.But if you want to use it in the same batch, be aware that
sc stop
won't wait for the service to be stopped. In this case you have to usenet stop [service]
followed bynet start [service]
. This will be executed synchronously.