Article ID: 925209
Article Last Modified on 10/23/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006
SYMPTOMS
When you try to install the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) part of Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting, you may receive the following message:
CAUSE
This problem occurs because an instance of SQL Server was previously installed and was not completely uninstalled from the registry and from the Program Files folder.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, completely uninstall Small Business Accounting and SQL Server from the computer. For more information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
897877 How to completely remove Small Business Accounting and Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine
Then, reinstall Small Business Accounting.
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