Yeah, that is exactly what I did. I just couldn't find any way to fix it. What happened was that I tried to unistall VS 2010 Beta 2 and ended up removing more things than I should have, which caused some Windows issues. I hosed it up, in other words. There was only one thing left to do. Start over. So, I did a CLEAN installation of Windows 7 Home Premium and it made all the difference in the world. I had to, of course, reinstall any software that I wanted to use, all over again. It took me two or three days to get most of it done. VS 2008 and SQL Server 2008 were easy installs after that. I couldn't get SQL Server 2005 to install at all, so I finally gave up on it and went only with SQL Server 2008.

>Hi Cecil,
>I am wondering at this point if it might make sense just to reinstall the OS. It sounds like there is some stuff going on that might be hard to troubleshoot/fix.

>My organization still uses 2005. If it were up to me, we would go to 2008 just for the sake of being on the latest and greatest, but 2005 is still great, as is 2000.