Saturday, March 20, 2021

delete a service on Windows server

One of our servers had an issue with RAM being used up. Found that it was due to a second instance of Mysqld being created as a service as seen in the screenshot. 



The two instances of Mysql were conflicting with each other, and causing mysqld to continuously use up RAM and CPU. I deleted the 2nd instance of mysqld, following this procedure.

  • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services key with regedit
  • Select the key of the service you want to delete and choose Edit menu - Delete

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