Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Installing SSMS 2008 in Windows 7

What?
I wanted to install SQL Server Management Studio 2008 in Windows 7 machine

Problem:
Whenever I tried to install it failed in preliminary run saying it could not restart the computer and continued even after restarting computer (not just one or two restarts)

How I solved:
Before running the initial run, I went to registry in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Mananger
and cleared the value of "PendingFileRenameOperations"
and run the setup. mz! it worked.

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