Posted by GP on 09/15/05 01:22

Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Greg D. Moore (Strider) (mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com) writes:
>
>>"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in message
>>news:Xns96CFF0C3CF1C2Yazorman@127.0.0.1...
>>
>>>(minigitoo@aol.com) writes:
>>>
>>>>I am installing Crystal entreprise, it finds MS SQL Server installed
>>>>and ask me my login and password. I found directory MS SQL in program
>>>>files but i couldnt find uninstall programm. So I delete directory in
>>>>MS SQL in program files. But Crystal Entreprise find again MS SQL on my
>>>>machine.
>>>
>>>Not really sure why you would uninstall SQL Server just because you
>>>install Crystal Enterprise. Anyway, use Add/Remove Programs in the
>>>control panel to uninstall SQL Server. Just deleting the files does not
>>>help you, as Crystal - as any other civilized piece of software looks in
>>>the registry.
>>
>>And of course at this point if the original poster has no backup of that
>>directory, there's no easy way to uninstall the program since as I recall,
>>the uninstl script is normally there.
>
>
> Oops! I didn't think of that. I hope he still has his installation media,
> so he can repair his installation to uninstall it.
>
>

This has some good information on how to manually uninstall SQL Server 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290991

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