(SC) DeleteService FAILED 1072

Question

Last time I create WAS profile and WASService then I try to config and run many script for learn how to config WAS, Finally it crash so i use wasprofile delete this profile

Answer 1

In Windows 7, make sure Event Viewer closed before deleting.

Answer 2

make sure the service is stopped, the services control panel is closed, and no open file handles are open by the service.

Also make sure ProcessExplorer is not running.

Answer 3

For some buggy reason both Event Viewer and/or Services.msc won't do a proper refresh when you tell them to!

Close them and restart, and the service would have been deleted anyway.

Answer 4

I had the same issue. After I closing and re-opening the Computer Management window the service was removed from the list. I'm running windows 7

Answer 5

The 3rd party application uninstaller had removed the files for the service and then left the service in this pending deletion state.

After trying to close all applications, identifing PID of service(couldn't) for kill, logging off all other users and logging off and on, rebooting was the only fix that worked for me.

Answer 6

I had a similar problem and what I did to overcome it was the following:

1. Stop the service: net stop "ServiceName"
2. Ensure: the "mmc.exe" process does not exist (The "Services" list window): taskkill /F /IM mmc.exe

3. Delete the service: sc delete "ServiceName"

   C:\server>sc delete "ServiceName"
   
   [SC] DeleteService SUCCESS
   

Now, if I execute another sc command, what I get is the following:

C:\server>sc delete "ServiceName"

[SC] OpenService FAILED 1060:

The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

But not the 1072 error message