Unhandled exception installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows XP / Windows 7 machine
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When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows XP (or, according to the comments, Windows 7) development machine that has been around for quite some time, I got an error stating an unhandled exception occured in the application (see image). The error showed up directly upon startup and read: