Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Quick fix: SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 not installing

 My installation of SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 last week always got stuck on the initial "Loading packages. Please wait..." screen. The solution which worked for me was deleting the registry key underneath "HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio" as outlined in Installing SSMS 18 won't go past loading packages phase.



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Worked for me, thanks!!

Unknown said...

Launching cmd prompt as administrator and running the below command definitely helped

reg DELETE “HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio” /reg:32

Unknown said...

thanks!! its work