Windows Service Not Shown in Add Remove Programs Under Control Panel

Windows service is not getting uninstalled from Control Panel

To paraphrase:
As I understand it you're wanting to delete a service which hasn't installed cleanly?

You can either:

Use sc delete <myservice> (which I'm presuming from your question is unavailable?)
Delete the associated windows registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services (search for your subkey)

Hope that helps!

How to remove service application from Add/Remove Programs if it is no longer listed as a service?

Perhaps this will help:

http://setupanddeployment.com/cleanup/installer-cleanup/

http://setupanddeployment.com/cleanup/installer-cleanup-update/

How do I uninstall a Windows service if the files do not exist anymore?

You have at least three options. I have presented them in order of usage preference.

Method 1 - You can use the SC tool (Sc.exe) included in the Resource Kit.
(included with Windows 7/8)

Open a Command Prompt and enter

sc delete <service-name>

Tool help snippet follows:

DESCRIPTION:
        SC is a command line program used for communicating with the
        NT Service Controller and services.

delete----------Deletes a service (from the registry).

Method 2 - use delserv

Download and use delserv command line utility. This is a legacy tool developed for Windows 2000. In current Window XP boxes this was superseded by sc described in method 1.

Method 3 - manually delete registry entries (Note that this backfires in Windows 7/8)

Windows services are registered under the following registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

Search for the sub-key with the service name under referred key and delete it. (and you might need to restart to remove completely the service from the Services list)

There is no entry in Add/Remove Programs after installing my application (I used Setup project)

There is no uninstall.exe when you are using msi packages to install applications. If you double click the msi of an already installed application you get the choice to do a repair or an uninstall.

What name did you give to your installation package? Maybe you left the default name or gave it some "weird" name different from your application and that's why you can't find it. In 7 you can sort the installed programs by install date and check what's been installed last, don't remember if it's possible in XP.

How can I delete a service in Windows?

Use the SC command, like this (you need to be on a command prompt to execute the commands in this post):

SC STOP shortservicename
SC DELETE shortservicename

Note: You need to run the command prompt as an administrator, not just logged in as the administrator, but also with administrative rights. If you get errors above about not having the necessary access rights to stop and/or delete the service, run the command prompt as an administrator. You can do this by searching for the command prompt on your start menu and then right-clicking and selecting "Run as administrator". Note to PowerShell users: sc is aliased to set-content. So sc delete service will actually create a file called delete with the content service. To do this in Powershell, use sc.exe delete service instead

If you need to find the short service name of a service, use the following command to generate a text file containing a list of services and their statuses:

SC QUERY state= all >"C:\Service List.txt"

For a more concise list, execute this command:

SC QUERY state= all | FIND "_NAME"

The short service name will be listed just above the display name, like this:

SERVICE_NAME: MyService
DISPLAY_NAME: My Special Service

And thus to delete that service:

SC STOP MyService
SC DELETE MyService

Manually add an exe to Programs and Features in control panel

You need to write values under Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\YourAppnameOrGuid

DisplayName and UninstallString are required, the others are optional.

Installed Win Service not displaying in Service Manager

Forgive me if this goes without saying, but you haven't mentioned what code you are executing in your custom actions. Your service assembly must have a class which derives from System.Configuration.Install.Installer, and that class must have the [RunInstaller(true)] attribute on it. Within that class, you will need to create an instance of System.ServiceProcess.ServiceInstaller and System.ServiceProcess.ServiceProcessInstaller, set the appropriate parameters on those instances, and add them to the Installers collection. The ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller MSDN pages have a very basic example, but it should be enough to get you there if this is what is needed.