desinstall MS SQL

Hi
I am installing Crystal entreprise, it finds MS SQL Server installed
and ask me my login and password. I found directory MS SQL in program
files but i couldnt find uninstall programm. So I delete directory in
MS SQL in program files. But Crystal Entreprise find again MS SQL on my
machine.
Could you help me please ?
Thanks

PS: Sorry for my french postSo first deleting the SQL Server directories is a problem, you should
deinstall that, if you cant find the uninstall it could be that you
dont have the appropiate permissions to execute the deinstaller (?!).

Is there a service running with the name MSSQLSERVER***** ?

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer|||(minigitoo@.aol.com) writes:
> I am installing Crystal entreprise, it finds MS SQL Server installed
> and ask me my login and password. I found directory MS SQL in program
> files but i couldnt find uninstall programm. So I delete directory in
> MS SQL in program files. But Crystal Entreprise find again MS SQL on my
> machine.

Not really sure why you would uninstall SQL Server just because you
install Crystal Enterprise. Anyway, use Add/Remove Programs in the
control panel to uninstall SQL Server. Just deleting the files does not
help you, as Crystal - as any other civilized piece of software looks in
the registry.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp|||"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@.sommarskog.se> wrote in message
news:Xns96CFF0C3CF1C2Yazorman@.127.0.0.1...
> (minigitoo@.aol.com) writes:
> > I am installing Crystal entreprise, it finds MS SQL Server installed
> > and ask me my login and password. I found directory MS SQL in program
> > files but i couldnt find uninstall programm. So I delete directory in
> > MS SQL in program files. But Crystal Entreprise find again MS SQL on my
> > machine.
> Not really sure why you would uninstall SQL Server just because you
> install Crystal Enterprise. Anyway, use Add/Remove Programs in the
> control panel to uninstall SQL Server. Just deleting the files does not
> help you, as Crystal - as any other civilized piece of software looks in
> the registry.

And of course at this point if the original poster has no backup of that
directory, there's no easy way to uninstall the program since as I recall,
the uninstl script is normally there.

>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
> Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp|||Greg D. Moore (Strider) (mooregr_deleteth1s@.greenms.com) writes:
> "Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@.sommarskog.se> wrote in message
> news:Xns96CFF0C3CF1C2Yazorman@.127.0.0.1...
>> (minigitoo@.aol.com) writes:
>> > I am installing Crystal entreprise, it finds MS SQL Server installed
>> > and ask me my login and password. I found directory MS SQL in program
>> > files but i couldnt find uninstall programm. So I delete directory in
>> > MS SQL in program files. But Crystal Entreprise find again MS SQL on my
>> > machine.
>>
>> Not really sure why you would uninstall SQL Server just because you
>> install Crystal Enterprise. Anyway, use Add/Remove Programs in the
>> control panel to uninstall SQL Server. Just deleting the files does not
>> help you, as Crystal - as any other civilized piece of software looks in
>> the registry.
> And of course at this point if the original poster has no backup of that
> directory, there's no easy way to uninstall the program since as I recall,
> the uninstl script is normally there.

Oops! I didn't think of that. I hope he still has his installation media,
so he can repair his installation to uninstall it.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp|||"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@.sommarskog.se> wrote in message
news:Xns96D06BE298745Yazorman@.127.0.0.1...
> Oops! I didn't think of that. I hope he still has his installation media,
> so he can repair his installation to uninstall it.

To paraphrase a quote from 30+ years ago...

"We had to install the program to uninstall it".

Very zen actually.

Hmm.. Zen and the Art of Computer Maintenance.

> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
> Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp|||Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Greg D. Moore (Strider) (mooregr_deleteth1s@.greenms.com) writes:
>>"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@.sommarskog.se> wrote in message
>>news:Xns96CFF0C3CF1C2Yazorman@.127.0.0.1...
>>
>>>(minigitoo@.aol.com) writes:
>>>
>>>>I am installing Crystal entreprise, it finds MS SQL Server installed
>>>>and ask me my login and password. I found directory MS SQL in program
>>>>files but i couldnt find uninstall programm. So I delete directory in
>>>>MS SQL in program files. But Crystal Entreprise find again MS SQL on my
>>>>machine.
>>>
>>>Not really sure why you would uninstall SQL Server just because you
>>>install Crystal Enterprise. Anyway, use Add/Remove Programs in the
>>>control panel to uninstall SQL Server. Just deleting the files does not
>>>help you, as Crystal - as any other civilized piece of software looks in
>>>the registry.
>>
>>And of course at this point if the original poster has no backup of that
>>directory, there's no easy way to uninstall the program since as I recall,
>>the uninstl script is normally there.
>
> Oops! I didn't think of that. I hope he still has his installation media,
> so he can repair his installation to uninstall it.

This has some good information on how to manually uninstall SQL Server 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;290991|||thanks

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