Comments on: TIP: Installing SQL Server 2008 – reboot required check fails

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:49:57 +0000

Good call. Mine was failing because of a user logged in over RDP who had printer redirection turned on. The reg key points to the culprit.

Well done.

By: Bull

Bull — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:00:37 +0000

TeamViewer will cause this as well.

By: Dinesh Vishe

Dinesh Vishe — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:30:13 +0000

Wow…GREAt help me……….Lot.Thanks

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:26:41 +0000

I had the same problem with the logitech garbage in the registery. Just want to add two minor clarification:
1- I didn’t removed the PendingFileRenameOperations registery but only the content
2- I didn’t rebooted after step 1 but I justed clicked on rescan in the SQL installation tool

By: greg

greg — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:43:15 +0000

logitech was exactly the culprit. removed the regedit line and sql worked fine

By: Simon Mitchell

Simon Mitchell — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:22:03 +0000

Thanks – that worked like a treat Microsoft had 3 pages of reasons why this was caused but no solution

By: Jamie Snell

Jamie Snell — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:57:19 +0000

I was using a logitech mouse.
This fix worked for me also.
SQL Server 2008 installed fine.

By: Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:16:25 +0000

Worked great for me on Vista Business 64-bit. I did have to run Regedit as Administrator …

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:56:55 +0000

If it was a driver then you would be able intall using one of solutions above…
If you have VPC or WMWare I would try installing there first with XPSP3 installed…
WMWare allows you recreteate image of your main system and then you can play with settings without a chance to break your main installation.

By: Rob Laing

Rob Laing — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:00:17 +0000

Windows XP Prof SP3.

What do I have to do – uninstall the logitech drv?