U cant delete from the registry too. Try it, it wont affect anything else surely. It wont allow to delete the service, But I havent tried by changing the value. I donno that, just a guess. Can anyone tell if he has tried that. Else this is really problem to delete service from the services. - Chirag Majmundar On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:37:18 +0200, Yechiel Adar <adar76@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No problems with it (at least on win2000). > run regedit. > Go to HKLM->system->controlset001/002 > locate the service entry in both and delete it, then boot the machine. > > I have done it many times. > > Yechiel Adar > Mehish > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l