{"id":1015,"date":"2016-08-23T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T21:56:52","slug":"sage-50-2017-installation-freezes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/sage-50-2017-installation-freezes\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do When Your Sage 50 2017 Installation Freezes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Sage 50 version 2017 upgrades I&#8217;ve installed have gone smoothly. But on a few PCs it froze up on &#8220;Step 1 of 3, Installing Pervasive&#8221; so I thought I&#8217;d pass along this tip for how to resolve this problem.<\/p>\n<p>W3dbsmgr.exe is the database service manager for Pervasive, the database engine that Sage 50 uses to manage you data. Occasionally it won&#8217;t shut down properly and interferes with the installation. Fortunately it&#8217;s easy to resolve, once you know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>First, right-click on a blank space on your task bar (that&#8217;s the bar, usually at the bottom of your screen, that all of your running applications show up on) and choose <em>Start Task Manager<\/em>. You can also get to the Task Manager by pressing <em>Ctrl+Shift+Esc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Windows 7 or Vista, go to the <em>Processes<\/em> tab. If you&#8217;re on Windows 10, 8, or 8.1, click on <em>More Details<\/em> and then go to the <em>Details<\/em> tab.<\/p>\n<p>Now find <em>w3dbsmgr.exe<\/em> in the list (or <em>Database Service Manager<\/em> in Windows 8), right-click on it, and choose <em>End Process<\/em>. You can close the Task Manager window and your Sage 50 installation should continue on its own.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ey5eYOI35UI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Sage 50 version 2017 upgrades I&#8217;ve installed have gone smoothly. But on a few PCs it froze up on &#8220;Step 1 of 3, Installing Pervasive&#8221; so I thought I&#8217;d pass along this tip for how to resolve this problem. W3dbsmgr.exe is the database service manager for Pervasive, the database engine that Sage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}