Uninstalling a service

[rsiddhartht]

Hi,

I have a peculiar case where in I need to remove/uninstall a windows service through vbscript which needs to run as a custom action in the installer which i will be creating. In shot is there any other way i can uninstall a service without using the regular "Remove" option which we get after we run the installer again.


Best Regards
Siddharth

[mihai.petcu]

Hi Siddharth,

I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish.

Do you need to perform a custom action that removes a service only on install?

If this is not the case, can you please exemplify the problem and give us more details about the intended behavior?

All the best,
Mihai

[rsiddhartht]

Yes Mihai.. That is what i want to do..

[mihai.petcu]

Hi Siddharth,

Instead of using a custom action to accomplish this, you can try this from the Services page. By adding a control operation set with "Stop" and "Delete" on install the package will uninstall the existing service by its name:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-g ... rties.html

All the best,
Mihai