Re: Weird ipc-daemon services

[Samik Raychaudhuri <samik(at)freeshell(dot)org>]

First try using the services tab in msconfig. If it doesn't work, You 
may have to clean up the registry. Back up the registry, then search for 
these two words and delete all the references.
HTH.

On 10/3/2005 9:18 PM, Aurangzeb M. Agha wrote:

> I'm having a problem removing a couple of weird ipc-daemon services I have 
> on my W2K box.  This MAY seem like a posting which is a duplicate to this 
> one (or one of the many others, but I assure you it's not!):
>
> Re: Problem: unable to uninstall CYGWIN-IPC DAEMON after uninstalling 
> PostgreSQL
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-10/msg00077.php
>
> I have TWO services (currently, disabled) what are on my PC which I can't 
> seem to get rid of:
>
> They are:
>
> 	a) ipc-daemona and
> 	b) ipc-daemonB
>
> The "Path to executable" for both of these is:
>
> 	F:\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe
>
> I *think* these both came about from prior, unsuccessful attempts to build 
> Postgres on this box--which is the only reason I can think of that they'd 
> have such informal names.
>
> I've tried passing the "--remove-as-service" to 'a' and 'b', but they're 
> not executables, so nothing happens.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to get rid of these two 
> services?
>
> Is there any more information anyone needs to help diagnose this info?  If 
> so, please let me know.
>
>
>
>
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