Installing SQL Server 2008R2, you might get the following...SQL Server starts to load, and then it craps out:
Managed SQL Server Landing Page has stopped working

The problem is that – for SQL Server 2008R2 circa Jan 2012, you got to overly excited and downloaded and installed the .Net Framework 4.0. One catch though. When you go to Uninstall a Program in the Control Panel, I found that you do not need to uninstall the Microsoft .Net 4 client profile, only the Microsoft .Net 4 Extended. The consequences of leaving the client profile installed I have no idea, but I know that it works because I just installed three instances of SQL Server 2008R2 as I prepare to set up a SQL Server Mirror on my network, and had to do this uninstall three times; each time I did not uninstall the client profile.


Thanks for reading,
Lee
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