Uninstalling the hard way
14 Jul 2010As I was trying to clean up my XP “home server”, I noticed SQL Server Express 2005 was still installed from back when I had my own mail server. Opening Add/Remove programs, I was surprised to find no Remove option:
| This was a bit disconcerting… Thankfully you can find everything on the web and this old blog post from 2005 walked me through running [MSIINV](http://cid-27e6a35d1a492af7.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Blog | _Tools/msiinv.zip) to get the product GUID and manually uninstalling from a command-line; e.g. |
msiexec /x {2AFFFDD7-ED85-4A90-8C52-5DA9EBDC9B8F}