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Where in the Windows Registry are the installed NT services located?

I've been creating an InstallShield 2009 Basic MSI package for a product that installs a few NT Services. When I uninstall the software every component is removed from the system except the service name entry displayed in the SCM ( Service Control Manager ). So the software components are removed but I can still see the NT Service in the Service Control manage. And of course when I try "Start" the service an error message is displayed saying the service executable can't be found... And I'd expect that.

So I want to clean up the registry so these uninstalled NT services don't appear in the SCM list of installed services.

Question:
Where in the registry is this information stored? I'd like to manually remove the SCM entry using regedit.

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notronrj

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Thank you for the response TechSinger.

My registry doesn't have appear to have the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SYSTEM key.
I did multiple search on the entire registry for the exe name of the service and the service display name and found nothing, yet the SCM still lists the service.

Anybody have any other thoughts?

notronrj

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As it turns out I had taken the steps suggested by TechSinger before asking the question here. However, it wasn't until I *rebooted* my machine that the service was no longer being displayed in the SCM.

Weird?

Thanks again TechSinger.