O K A Y ! ! INSTALLATION SUCCESSFUL ! MANY THANKS TO RICHMA ! ! Here is what we discovered. We followed your three step instructions (2 messages below), deleted the entire registry key . . . HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager Name: PendingFileRenameOperations Type: REG_MULTI_SZ...

<p><p> We have the same issue of continuous reboots while installing SQL Server Express 2008. We are having a problem loading MSI 4.5 which we were told is a pre-requisite for the SQL Server Express 2008. Here is a screenshot of the installation failure. We have installed Powershell 1.0 and...

We have the same issue of continuous reboots while installing SQL Server Express 2008. We are having a problem loading MSI 4.5 which we were told is a pre-requisite for the SQL Server Express 2008. Here is a screenshot of the installation failure. We have installed Powershell 1.0 and .Net Framework 3...