That dows not work in Windows XP, the Registry has
a File Rename Operations but no “Pending”, besides it is
empty and the error persists.

Thanks for that info, It would have taken me some time or worse a reinstall. Got to love the net….

This solution worked for me on XP

Worked like a charm… (on XP WALTER)

Thank you Mikhail Esteves!

This Solution Also Worked Perfectly for me
Thanks a Lot

Like Walter, I do not have the pendingfilerenameoperations
key and the error does persist. This fix will not work for everyone.

This worked for me, thanks Mikhail Esteves.

Thanks buddy. It helped a lot..

Thanks a lot man…this is gr8 idea..helped me a lot in critical situation.

Thanks a lot. You save my life

Work for me on Windows 2003 Server with Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

Cheers :)

Same problem with my new HP NC8230 laptop. Thx for the tip :)

Worked great on XP Media edition also.

thx. this is called last minutes help ;-)

Worked great! no clue otherwise. Thanks.

worked for me on xp as well..thx heaps

It works. Thanks for the information.

Like Mikhail was describing: Its not a subfolder underneath SessionManager but a key (in the same ‘directory’). Deleted it and was back in business (XP). Thanks Mikhail.

Worked for me in XP — although there was a space between the words “Session” and “Manager” at the end of the key name. I also have the HP NC8230 – that seems strange that another user above also had the same problem on the same laptop model. Thanks for the solution!

Hi Mikhael,

Thanks to you very much for the post above. It helped me a lot and had saved my mind.

Some HP tools might also leave their mark, thus stopping SQL from installing. In this case will find that the key in the registry is pointing to a file (i.e. “\C:\blah.events”).

In this case: delete the file (and the key)and SQL will install ok.

Anyway. Good thread. Helped me to fix the prob.

Thanks for the rescue – again some HP installation had left its mark on the registry on my nx8220. Seems they need to clean up their act :)

Hi Mikhael,

Work fine !!!!

Many thanks !

This fix worked perfectly for me, I have installed SQL Server many times on many different computers/servers and had never experienced this problem before. For me this occured on my HP Pavilion zd8290ea laptop, the file in question was: c:\Program Files\HPQ\Shared\pqwmi.events, which had a file size of zero.

I took a backup of all of the files in that directly and then deleted them, the above was in use and wouldn’t allow me to delete it though, backup up the registry and then deleted the key as above. No reboot was necessary after this, I could simply carry on with the installation of SQL Server.

Not sure whether perhaps this file was something to do with the sysprep stuff that the laptops seem to come with, I had had a few problems with that also until I wiped it and did it all myself!

Anyway, thanks for the fix, most appreciated (especially as I only wanted the client tools!)

:)

Regards

Rob

Thanks.

Had the same problem with both SQL Server Dev and Visual Studio. Every time the laptop reboots it regenerates the key. Will update with info if I find a “permanent” solution to the problem.

Regards,

J.

Yup, I too have an NC8230 and experienced the same problem. Looks like tere must be an issue with these laptops. Thanks for the fix, though, worked a treat.

Andy

Worked like clockwork on XP. Amazing how you figured that out. Thanks so much.

Doug

I also have had this problem with an HP NC8230 laptop. I had to restart in Safe mode to clear the content of the “\Program Files\HPQ\Shared” directory after backing them up to another folder. Then I was finally able to install Visual Studio.net. Other than this issue I really like the laptop so far. I did find their single sign-on credential manager application to be a royal pain and use Add/Remove programs to get rid of it.

Thx for the help! Worked great on XP.
One note: I had previously installed SQL Server 2005 CTP (Sept) and decided I didn’t need it afterall, so I uninstalled it 1st, then applied your “fix”. This might be why I had the appropriate key in my reg.

Cheers!

Thanks so much. This problem was stumping me for 3 days already. I was totally blaming Norton Internet Security, haha. Have a good one.

I volunteer to wash you car and mow your lawn for one week. Saved my neck.

I was kinda nervous to make modifications to a perfectly working (brand new) HP Laptop NX6120.

So I went with the second advice and disabled all HP application in MSCONFIG.exe

So far it seems to have done the trick. I’m going through the installation as I entering this. I’ll enable those HP apps after I’ve completed the Server Installation.

Thanks for the info. It really helped.

B.

Had this problem on a win2003 server, great tip, installation went through fine after.

Thanks for the great tip! Works perfectly

Hi Thanks
It worked on Windows 2003 Server for me. Thank You Guyz

Thanks guys. Wasted 2 hours restarting and removing applications for this.

SWEEEEET!!! I’ll have to remember that one! Cheers

Be careful! By deleting this value you could be whacking your system. Pending files are usually DLL’s and EXE’s that could not be replaced while all the services were running, so the installs write the files with temporary names and setup PendingFileRenameOperations to correct the names later. Deleting the operations mean you could create DLL hell.

Hey bro,
you are wonderfoul !!! nice you helped me a lot TYTYTY and 100x TY man THNX a lot

Great! Many thanks.

thanks its work perfect (XP and W2k3)

thanks sir… this is helps me a lot ^_

>> Jheff

I had already rebooted once and this allowed me to get the install to run on W2K3 Standard. MSFT is such a disappointment in so many areas. I had a guy tell me I might have to reinstall Windows. I hung up on him laughing. Thanks buddy.

thanks a lot for providing me the solution, it works on 2003 O.O sp2 Std edition.

great its work