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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Pending restart operation SQL server installation

if you  have tried to install SQL Server 2008  and cannot install, because of  the errormessage the prerequistite "Restart the computer is required".

But every time you restart  computer and try to execute the setup of SQL Server 2008, you get the same message

Then you have change a registry entry in computer
  • Open Regedit
  • Find the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager"
  • Rename the "PendingFileRenameOperations" value to "PendingFileRenameOperations2"
  • Try again
This will solve the Restart Problem

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