Install Problem...Please Help!

A third party application is trying to install MSDE 2000 on our XP Professional machine. Install gets to about "2 seconds remaining" then backs out and simply quits. No error messages. Saw a similar post on here but it was never resolved. I've made sure t
he Server service is running and that File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks is installed and enabled. Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is a very important application we are trying to install. Thanks.
Floyd
Thanks for the reply. The application never installs so there is no .ini file...not that I would know what to change in it if it was there. Why won't this stupid thing just install? This is driving me batty!
"sthomas" wrote:

> hi :
> Check the .ini file if you have any that is coming with
> the application and do modifications if it is required
>
> on our XP Professional machine. Install gets to about "2
> seconds remaining" then backs out and simply quits. No
> error messages. Saw a similar post on here but it was
> never resolved. I've made sure the Server service is
> running and that File and Print Sharing for Microsoft
> Networks is installed and enabled. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated...this is a very important
> application we are trying to install. Thanks.
>

Install Problem...Please Help!

Exactly the same problem here, on a W2K machine.
The event log provides me with: "Product: Microsoft SQL
Server Desktop Engine -- Installation operation failed.".
In close proximity to these error messages, I can see
some "LoadPerf" error messages and warnings. Seem these
messages are related.
Cool, another one of these "helpful" error messages.
I thried the 3rd party install and a manual install, but
to no avail.
Any idea, someone?
Best regards, Klaus
>--Original Message--
>A third party application is trying to install MSDE 2000
on our XP Professional machine. Install gets to about "2
seconds remaining" then backs out and simply quits. No
error messages. Saw a similar post on here but it was
never resolved. I've made sure the Server service is
running and that File and Print Sharing for Microsoft
Networks is installed and enabled. Any help would be
greatly appreciated...this is a very important application
we are trying to install. Thanks.
>Floyd
>.
>
hi Klaus,
"Klaus Stock" <ks@.expose-media.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:2d1201c47e2d$bf57b1c0$a401280a@.phx.gbl...
> Exactly the same problem here, on a W2K machine.
> The event log provides me with: "Product: Microsoft SQL
> Server Desktop Engine -- Installation operation failed.".
> In close proximity to these error messages, I can see
> some "LoadPerf" error messages and warnings. Seem these
> messages are related.
> Cool, another one of these "helpful" error messages.
> I thried the 3rd party install and a manual install, but
> to no avail.
please have a look if http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315083 can help
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.8.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.54.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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