SQL 2000 Installation Problem

A previous program installation created pending file operations on the installation machine. You must restart the computer before running setup.

You don’t really have to restart your machine – at least I didn’t have too! I hate to close out all my apps and reboot (are you listening Microsoft?) for a simple install like this. Are you getting this error message “A previous program installation created pending file operations on the installation machine. You must restart the computer before running setup.” when attempting to install the SQL Server Enterprise Tools on your workstation? Hopefully this will help.

Exit the installer and then do this:

Click START, RUN type regedit

Surf to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

Delete PendingFileRenameOperations

Start the install process again.

Source: if the above doesn’t work, try the other items mentioned at the bottom of this Microsoft Support article.