Installing/Uninstalling Services in Windows 7: “Error 1001. The specified service has been marked for deletion”

Question

I am currently developing a Windows Service in .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7-32bit. I have an installer project that does the installation for me. When I install the s

Answer 1

Short Answer

• Close Services.msc
• Close Process Explorer

Long Answer

After running into this problem again, I went to task manager and started shutting down processes. I eventually found the culprit, it was an internal corporate application used for managing software distribution. I shut it down, and the services were finally gone.

Update

I also found that sometimes Process Explorer needs to be closed for deleted services to disappear.