Two points about deleting services (Well one really, just looked at from two angles): 1) Services must have fully stopped before you delete them, or they get marked for deletion on the next reboot (Good, solid server software: expecting frequent reboots!) 2) The service must have had all the SCM handles closed otherwise the same happens What is probably happening is that the SCM handle from the service shutdown has been deleted, but python or something still has a reference to it that has not been garbage collected yet. Just a guess. Without seeing your code, it's hard to know for certain. Adrian... -- The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. - Sun Tzu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean@work (E-mail)" <dean.houghton@wideawake.co.uk> To: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: [Zope-dev] Error removing NT Service

Hi

I have an application built with Zope which can install, control and remove NT services. The actual code is in an external python script. The services can be installed and controlled but if you try and remove the service it get marked as 'disabled' and can not be reinstalled or remove manually (without using the registry). However if Zope is restarted the service is then removed.

Does anyone have any ideas about resolving this problem ??

thanks in advance

Dean Houghton

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