{"id":125,"date":"2010-05-05T04:38:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T04:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcrawfor74.wordpress.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2013-12-06T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T04:02:05","slug":"sql-server-2008-uninstall-restart-computer-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2010\/05\/05\/sql-server-2008-uninstall-restart-computer-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2008 Uninstall &#8211; Restart Computer Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ntsbl-502788874\" class=\"ntsbl-before-content ntsbl-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6288941070289539\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6288941070289539\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"9356781486\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>Sometimes when attempting to uninstall SQL Server, &#8220;Setup Support Rules&#8221; performs a check and fails on &#8220;Restart Computer&#8221; with the following error;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A computer restart is required. You must restart this computer before installing SQL Server&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So you restart your computer and try again, same error&#8230; Doh!<\/p>\n<p>So now it turns out there is a bad registry entry, so if you have restarted your computer and there are actually no pending restart operations that you are aware of the do the following<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Leave the Setup Support Rules UI open if you are already in there<\/li>\n<li>Open Regedit<\/li>\n<li>Go to the following registry key&#8221;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Delete the &#8220;PendingFileRenameOperations&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Re-Run&#8221; in Setup Support Rules launch the uninstall again<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So now you will have passed the restart computer check and you can continue and get rid of that pesky old version of SQL Server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when attempting to uninstall SQL Server, &#8220;Setup Support Rules&#8221; performs a check and fails on &#8220;Restart Computer&#8221; with the following error; &#8220;A computer restart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}