Hi Jonathan, Not sure if you have seen this information: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/ Also try the tool that it talks about on the page. This information helped me uninstall beta 1. Hope this helps. Peter. "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews@kangaroologic.com> wrote in message news:<da6fc9$qr4$1@sea.gmane.org>...

If only I knew! The first few times I tried to install it, the installer crashed. I tried again last night, and it fails with a bunch of error messages; I guess there's still residue in the registry from the failed installations. I really don't care that much about beta 2; what I'm worried about is the release version, which I'm afraid won't install either.

Jonathan