Hello, I'm trying to uninstall the Houdini Apprentice, version 8.0.474.

It uninstalls OK, except it leaves the two XP services, Houdini license client
and Houdini license server intact and installed.

Please advise. How to get rid of them properly?

I'm aware I could disable the services using the services tool
and then delete hserver.exe and sesinetd.exe,
how do clean it up ? ie. get it out of the registry, etc.

Any assistance appreciated.
Dave

There used to be a utility called “hservice” that would come on official Houdini CD's for doing exactly this. I'm not sure when the last time someone actually got a Houdini CD though. I've attached a copy of it here.

To stop and uninstall the services, use:
hservice -qu HoudiniServer
hservice -qu HoudiniLicenseServer

Now you can manually remove the remaining executables.

From one of the most “interesting” threads ever….
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=5304&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=uninstall&start=0 [sidefx.com]

Stop the two services through the command prompt

net stop “Houdini License Client”
net stop “Houdini License Server”

Delete these two keys from the windows registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HoudiniServer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HoudiniLicenseServer

Reboot, then delete these files

%SYSTEMROOT%\keys\
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\sesinetd.exe
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\sesinetd.log
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\sesinetd.options
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\hserver.exe
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\hserver.ini

Also in your $HOME directory there will be a folder called houdini8.0. (Your $HOME is something like CDocuments and Settings/Admistrator)

Thanks for the info.

Dave

I don't know why would anyone ever want to uninstall houdini