So Automatic updates installed some stuff and rebooted my computer. I thought I had it set to download and let me choose to install, but I guess not.
Upon getting to work this morning, I couldn’t log on. I kept on getting an error about something could not be initialized. Turns out, this was HP Credential Manager. Messing around with the logon options, I finally found the checkbox to bypass credential manager for logon (at least HP was smart enough to put that in there). One weird thing I noticed, was that the finder print reader, which had stopped working after installing those 2 Vista reliability patches, was working again.
Upon logging into Windows, I started to notice things were broken. Folder Share failed to start, I could not login to outlook, MSN IM said it was down, and VS said that I had a licensing error. Needless to say I was quite concerned. After messing around for awhile, I got around to uninstalling HP credential manager, and most of my login issues were resolved. I could login normally, outlook worked, MSN, and foldershare, and I’m sure a bunch more stuff that I hadn’t tried worked now as well.
Unfortunately, VS was still hosed. A Google search revealed that I need to uninstall delete some registry keys and reinstall. Well the first time thru, that failed, and I was left with a partially installed VS.
Next up, I started following the instructions from this KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907965 Thankfully I had already downloading the windows SDK to get SvcTraceViewer for WCF, so I had the MsiZap utility. After I was done with the KB article, I deleted the registry keys specified here as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/11/14/492765.aspx
UPDATE:
It’s been a little over a week since this all went down. I’m happy to report that everything is pretty much back to normal. Some of the VS addins needed to be reinstalled, like TestDriven.Net and the Business intelligence stuff for SQL 2005. I found a posting on how to re-install the sql BI:
go to the location for SQL Server setup and run .\Tools\Setup\vs_setup.exe. This will install the VS Shell. After this is installed repair the BI Studio installation by running the following from the command line from the .\Tools directory: start /wait setup.exe /qb REINSTALL=SQL_WarehouseDevWorkbench REINSTALLMODE=OMUS
Unfortunately, it still didn’t give me BI support in VS 2008.