Unregistering a Service

[Disiance]

While attempting to set up my server again I accidentally installed the wrong version of MySQL, in doing so it registered the MySQL server as a Windows Service, but it didn't unregister it in the uninstall. So now since there's already a MySQL service Windows won't let the correct MySQL version install as a service, and that's preventing me from running MySQL...

So my question is: How does one manually uninstall a Windows Service?

[mendhak]

First, stop and disable the service. The fact that the service is running (if it's running) means that the DLLs are still there.

Open up REGEDIT, head over to HKLM/system/currentcontrolset/services

And look for your service. Navigate a bit there and look for some files which it may be referring to. Delete the registry key and delete those files, then reboot the machine.

I am not responsible if your computer explodes.

[Disiance]

Thank you very much for the help.