A couple of questions:

What Operating System are you running?
Do you have any other versions of SQL Server on the machine?
What is the name of your machine?

>Hi all:
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>I just installed VFP 7.0, followed by Install Shield and then chose to install MSDE also. I did get a prompt "Would you like to install MSDE now?" to which I said OK. After the "supposed" installation, I could not find anything that said SQL or Server etc. which made me presume that the install did not go thru properly. I therefore clicked again on the install hyperlink and got the following message:
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>"The instance name specified is invalid".
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>What am I doing wrong here? TIA.