[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 and forgot delete WASService.

Now I found IBM Webphere Application Server service display in services.msc list, so I tried to delete it with WASService.exe -remove command and windows SC command but I got message

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin>sc delete "IBMWAS61Service - DEV"
[SC] DeleteService FAILED 1072:
The specified service has been marked for deletion.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

What I've done is go to this location in regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services

From here, you will see a folder for every service on your machine. Simply delete the folder for the service you wish, and you're done.

N.B: Stop the service before you try this.