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As shown in the picture below, I want to delete MyNewService, but when I type in 

sc delete MyNewService

enter image description here I simply can't delete it because there is no such service.

Any ideas how to solve this problem?

Edit: as far as the service panel is concerned, the MyNewService is there all the time; I restarted the pc a few times, and it's there.

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@Ngu Soon Hui: Please edit your question so that it contains the error message in text form - this makes it easier to find the solution with search engines, and may therefore help other people with the same problem. Thanks. :) – Tomalak May 2 '09 at 12:01
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View the properties of the service and you'll see a "Service Name" and "Display Name". The display name is the one you see in services.msc, you need to use the service name with the net command however. Sometimes they're very different for example "Extensible Authentication Protocol Service" is the display name and "EapHost" is the service name.

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Excellent, I needed this to alter my instance of sql server but couldn't get it to work! I was trying it with "SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS)" but needed MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS! – JLWarlow Feb 24 '11 at 10:33
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