title: Uninstalling SQL Server Management Studio 2014 in Windows 8
body: <p>I have a student who installed SQL Server 2014 with tools, but the Management Studio part did not install.  There is no SSMMS.EXE on the machine.  </p>
  
  <p>So I tried to reinstall it, and the Management Studio tools come up checked but grayed out, so the SQL Installer will not let me make any changes.</p>
  
  <p>So I tried to uninstall SSMS from the control panel-->uninstall programs.  However, it was not there.</p>
  
  <p>So I uninstalled all SQL Server programs, then I killed all running instances, then I deleted all the MSSQLServer files under both program files and program files (x64).  Then I updated Visual Studio 2010.  Then I tried to reinstall SQL Server.</p>
  
  <p>Again, the tools appeared, but they were checked and grayed out.</p>
  
  <p>Soooo.  SQL server thinks the SSMS tools are installed and thus will not let me reinstall them.  However, they are not installed, so I cannot remove them.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea how to convince SQL server that the tools are in fact absent?</p>