Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Re-Installation problem (prev installations not removed completely)

I have installed SQL server 2005 on Win SERVER 2003, then uninstalled and then re-installed but I have found out that the previous instances are still listed and the the previous collation too (I have changed reg setting and and language option re-installation).

It looks like that removing program does not remove completely every object, probably registry values

Do you know how to perform a good uninstallation removing everything (add/remove program does not work properly as written before) ?

Any help will be very appreciated.

Thank

After uninstalling SQL Server, check the ARP to confirm that the SQL Server Native Client was also removed. There are a few other support-type components that remain on your box from time to time. This is one of them.

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)|||

Because some modules are shared among instances on the same machine, I will not be able to unstall the shared modules, like SQL Native Client,etc.

If I had installed several instances of SQL 2005, will I get problems if I uninstall and reinstall some instances later?

NP

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