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How to Unregister Cognos Analytics Services on Windows operating systems

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Summary

This document describes the steps to delete or unregister the Cognos Analytics services in Windows

Solves issues with error messages as below:
[ ERROR ] A service with the same name, 'IBM Cognos:9300', is already registered. Please rename the Cognos service.
or
This is not a valid win32 application.

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Modified date:
01 May 2025

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