Recently I got this error while installing SQL Server 2005 64 bit on a machine where previously SQL Server 2005 32 bit was installed: 1. Open Administrative Tools \ Component Services 2. Go to Component Services\Computers\My Computer\COM+ Applications 3. Delete Microsoft.SqlServer.MSMQTask Full credit to Vivek Thakur at codeasp.net for his orginal blog post : http://codeasp.net/blogs/vivek_iit/microsoft-net/440/sql-server-install-error-one-or-more-of-the-components-being-installed-are-already-re...

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