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“The specified service has been marked for deletion” error

Started by Rick, May 01, 2015, 05:05:08 PM

Rick

I removed one software from my Windows server but when I checked services, I found that during removal it had not removed service. I manually tried to remove the service using the following command:

sc delete <my_service_name>

But I got annoying error as follow:

[SC] DeleteService FAILED 1072:
The specified service has been marked for deletion.


Not sure what's wrong.

- Rick

Kailash

There are many reasons for this error as follow:

- services console is opened
- Task manager is running
- MMC is in use
- Pending restart after software removal

There are few troubleshooting steps available in our article here.

- Kailash

WebhostingTalk

Thanks for sharing detailed article on how to resolve  "The specified service has been marked for deletion" error.

WebhostingTalk