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

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?

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:50:29 +0000

What version of the Windows are you using?
Logitech driver is usually an issue. It may change if they release a new driver set.
Problem above was reported for both SQL Server 2005 and 2008.
Could Express edition cause this error, I do not think so, but you can try and stop SQL Server associated services and see if it would help.

By: Rob Laing

Rob Laing — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:14:17 +0000

Thanks for that. I have to confess in my haste I didn’t notice a subtle difference in the name PendingFileRenameOperations. I don’t actually have this key anywhere but I do have FileRenameOperations in its place! This is what I was referring to.
All the RunOnce keys are empty.
I’ll check the startup stuff and see if that helps.
I do have a logitech web cam – could that be an issue (given the refernence to logitech in the comments above)?
I also have SQL Server 2005 Express installed???

Cheers
Rob

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:00:34 +0000

Rob,
from some other discussions please try clean up the following entries. In general they should be empty, but you may have some process putting stuff there. Do not reboot, just rerun check…

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

If there is nothing there then I would check what applications are in Startup folder to be run every time. If you do find something there try to close these one by one until check pass.
Please feel free to comment about your findings

By: Rob Laing

Rob Laing — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:12:23 +0000

Have same problem installing X86 version SQL 2008 on windows XP prof. But PendingFileRenameOperations entries are all empty. So, where to from here???