yes I have admin rights, I don't think it would even have started without that.

this box has 4gb memory and the task manager graph was not filling past 25%, there...

wow I never thought a reply would be this generous to actually look at the files, thanks

I suppose if you know what to look for this is the most...

i'll try installing advance and then the upgrade and let you know.

so i'm assuming i can install the advance version over my current instances, yes? well i'm about to...

ok finally got it, the traceoff needs a parameter to specify its global vs session, traceoff(5017,-1) is the syntax that works, so i can proceed with the upgrade

however, my upgrade...

also ran the fn_trace_getinfo, see results in attachment, it doesn't seem to have any information about the 8017 trace.

however, i did try and look at the log_104.trc file, its not...

so finally i found and installed the server mgt studio express

sure enough the tracestatus returned the same trace as the sql install report, 8017, status=1, global

i ran the traceoff, got...

well i thought the discovery report showed everything that is installed, but i've moved on since the original post, i uninstalled the 2008. i'm attempting to turn off a trace...

is there a 32bit setup possible,?

in my case

1 uninstall ss2005

2 uninstall sqlexpress 2008 (or upgrade?)

3 install 32bit enterprise/developer version of ss2008

????

so if i understand this

Filestream is verymuch supported in SQL Express.But you need to have it on a 64 bit server .Even if you have 32 bit version of SQL...

ok i see that, but can you elaborate on that? i don't seem to have access to them from the management studio and i don't have filestream installed to...