"ColTom2" <noemailaddress@nomail.com> wrote in message news:%23mdlYhTOJHA.4088@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi:
>
> Reply back from Microsoft is below. I uninstalled the SQL Server 2000
> which apparently was OEM installed by Dell and this resolved the issue.


Thanks for sharing your resolution.


FWIW I've been wondering how many of these SQL related incidents
could be resolved that way. E.g.,

8/5/2008 3:54 PM PST
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...9ec&sloc=en-us

<quote>
Since you are "non-technical" what do you use SQL for?
Perhaps the simplest solution would be to uninstall
the product completely? ; }
</quote>


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