I forgot to mention that the Win 7 key is 64 bit and the Vista key was 32 bit, though I suspect it won't matter. I am planning on doing some clean os installs soon (maybe later tonight or tomorrow) so I will make some reg dumps and verify. I also happened to remember that when I do a clean install for most of my PC's, or the ones I am working on, that I usually make a complete reg dump before I get to far along with it. I pulled a clean dump off of one of my Vista 32 bit PC's to see what the keys for this service looked like and they were almost exactly the same as the one I attached for Vista above. The only difference was one of the empty keys I listed above as being created on the fly wasn't there. So it should be safe. I also happened to get my hands on a XP Pro clean dump and verified that this service doesn't exist for XP. Which is also what was shown for this service via blackviper.com. Obviously I don't have any info on it yet for Win 8, but will add if and/or when I get it.
I'm also looking into building this service via SC.exe, but I am a bit rusty using cmd. I will look into it after I verify some more clean dumps and post the batch file for you if I am successful. Or I could write an exe to check the service and then repair what is needed. (bit rusty here too, but it's like riding a bike right. lol) Of course I will test all first and only post code/attachments if I'm successful.
If you would like any of the complete clean install dumps just let me know and I'll send them your way. I'll try and provide info for each dump if I can.