Hi everyone,
I have encountered an unusual problem. I had SQLExpress 2008 installed on my machine. Recently, I thought of checking out the features of SQL Server 2008 by installing an Enterprise Evaluation Version. Uninstalling of SQLEXPRESS went fine and i successfully installed SQL Server Enterprise. But, it still shows Instances of SQLExpress at Login. I uninstalled SQL Server 2008 again and this time removed the following existing Registry Keys after uninstalling:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSSQLSERVER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MsDtsServer100
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server.
On Installing again. I figured out that Instances are adding up at SQL Server Login.
Is there any solution to this problem for removing unused and invalid multiple instances.
Regards,
Naser Javed
Software Engineer
CICON CESCP
