MSDE install problem

I've been using Jet databases for my websites for quite some time. I was
going to try MSDE a year or so ago but there were some limitations to it
back then that prevented me from using it.
After subscribing to the newsgroup yesterday and reading some of the posts I
saw the limitations had been removed in the recent release. So I decised to
download and install it.
I am now trying to install, but I get this error each time...
"The instance name specified is invalid"
I havent specified any instance name, so I don't know what to do.
I'm using WinXP-Pro.
Any ideas what the problem is ?
Thanks,
PW
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 06:41:11 +0800, "PW" <pwa@.NObigSPAMpond.net.au>
wrote:

>I've been using Jet databases for my websites for quite some time. I was
>going to try MSDE a year or so ago but there were some limitations to it
>back then that prevented me from using it.
>After subscribing to the newsgroup yesterday and reading some of the posts I
>saw the limitations had been removed in the recent release. So I decised to
>download and install it.
>I am now trying to install, but I get this error each time...
>"The instance name specified is invalid"
>I havent specified any instance name, so I don't know what to do.
>I'm using WinXP-Pro.
>Any ideas what the problem is ?
Do you already have SQL server installed? If you don't specify an
instance name, it uses the default which is the same as SQLServer.
Also, check your registry key,'HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server', value 'InstalledInstances'.