How to Remove a Dependency from a Windows Service

In the last post I showed how to use sc.exe to add a dependency to a Windows service; the first time I added the dependency to the eOne and eConnect services, I got the service name wrong. This was because the server I was working on had a SQL Server Named instance rather than the default name.

I had to do some searching around how to remove the incorrect dependency, as it was preventing the services from starting:

One key point to remember about using sc.exe to remove the dependencies, is that there is no way to remove a single dependency; when you run the command below, it will remove all dependencies:

sc config {service to have the dependency removed} depend= ""

sc config eOne.SmartConnect.WindowsService.exe depend= ""

Before running the above, make sure that there is only one dependency, or that you know all of the dependencies so that you can add them back.