I uninstalled houdini using add/remove programs on windows 2000 pro. I selected remove all. The program removed and the even the program folder was removed.

However, when I rebooted I checked my system services and both the sesinetd and hserver services are still starting.

I am afraid to just delete the sesinetd.exe and hserver.exe files from the system32 directory.

how do I safely remove the hserver.exe and sesinetd.exe services and why did the complete software uninstallation leave them installed????

I went into the registry and manually removed the hkey_local_machine>system>current_control_set>services>houdinilicenseserver and houdiniserver keys.

Then deleted the herver.ini and hserver.exe and sesinetd.exe files. Then ran regclean and removed the regentries pointing the removed files. There were 2 entries.

Then rebooted and re-installed and when the installation was complete the server admin found the old licenses still installed!!!!

How the HELL do I completely remove the houdini license servers and all information in them so I can do a completely clean installation please??

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If you right click on the service you want to stop it should show you the location and you can delete the files manually. For instance mine are located at C:\Program Files\SideFX\License Server
The documentation says that the license keys are located at C:\Windows\keys