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 Dangling instances won't uninstall

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ewomack
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Posted - 2011-02-25 : 11:32:08
Hello, I recently uninstalled 2008 R2 evaluation and installed 2008 R2 Developer edition, but I notice that I have some danging instances that weren't eradicated with the uninstall. I still have the evaluation instance hanging there as well as a SQLEXPRESS instance. Neither appears on the drop down when uninstalling. Plus, my Developer edition seems to have integrated with the SQLEXPRESS instance so I'm not able to do some higher level functions in Developer.

Anyone dealt with this before? How can I remove those unwanted instances? Will msiexec in the registry work?

Thank you!

Ed Womack
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