Unable to Delete Cognos 10 Installation Directory

[karthicks19]

Hi experts,
I installed Cognos 10 development version few days before and now its expired. So I uninstalled that. But still I found the installed folder had some files in it. I tried to delete that ,but it was throwing error message that its been used by some other program. I went to services, and I still see the Cognos 10 service is listed there in services. I suspect this is restricting me from deleting the folder contents. How can I remove this service and delete the contents in old installation folder? Appreciate your help in this.

[Grim]

I'm assuming this is windows so you'll have to use these steps to manually remove the service.
http://geekswithblogs.net/shahedul/archive/2006/10/13/93984.aspx

Once that is done reboot and then you should be able to delete the directory.

[MFGF]

My guess is that IIS is running and holding some of the files and folders open. try doing iisreset -stop then deleting. If this works, do iisreset -start to start IIS back up again :)

MF.