From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:34:38 +0200, Erland Sommarskog   
    wrote:   
      
   >Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:   
   >>>Then you use that dialogue to create a user and then you select that as   
   >>>the service account. Setup will assign that account the permissions   
   >>>needed.   
   >>   
   >>      Where do I select this?  What setup are you referring to?   
   >   
   >The SQL Server setup. There is a dialog in the wizard where you select the   
   >service accounts, which you should have seen a couple of times by now.   
      
        Yes, I know about that.  I have seen it many times.   
      
        What I did not know was which setup you were referring to.  Aside   
   from that one, candidates for what you were referring to were the user   
   account setup of Control Panel - User Accounts and the setup that is   
   supposedly in My Computer - Manage.  All have been referred to in this   
   thread, and all are setups.   
      
   >>      It is my system at home.  I find it rather frustrating that I can   
   >> not get an answer.  I did install SQL Express on this system before.   
   >   
   >I'm sorry, but I can't write long disassertations say that if you   
   >have this setup do this, if you are in that situations do that. I will   
   >have to make some assumptions, and if you did not ask the right question   
   >or did not give sufficient information, you will not get a very good   
   >answer.   
      
        You do realise that my having to guess the right question is the   
   major part of the frustration, right?   
      
        Maybe, you could tell what information I should provide you.  I   
   am installing (trying to install) on a Windows XP Home system which is   
   a freestanding workstation.  I am installing from my account which is   
   administrative.  I apparently have no way of dealing with service   
   accounts; at least, I have not seen anything about them on my system.   
      
        I did have SQL Express running on this system at one point. That   
   adds to the frustration.  What is the different factor that is causing   
   installations to fail?  Why did SQL Express setup trash part of my   
   system?  I am not the only one to have such problems.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
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