SQL 2000 Database Maintenance Plan drop downs for days, weeks, months, not displaying

Question

When setting up a SQL 2000 Database Maintenance Plan the drop down for Remove files older than is not populating with hours, days, weeks, or months. It is just blank. The version is  Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86)  
May  3 2005 23:18:38   Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation  Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2). Is there a fix for this issue?

Answer 1

This also works. All the credit goes to a user named eyechart.  Great directions provided as well.
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=47575
sqlmaint.exe
was missing from MSDE 2000, but that was fixed in SP1 I think. Since this is SP3
you probably have a missing registry value for the backup directory.
I
had to fix a similar problem last year on a bunch of laptops. They were all
missing a registry value. Anyway, here is the fix:
1. Fire up regedit and
look under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer
2. Ensure you have
a string value called BackupDirectory. The value for this should be the path to
your backup dir. The default value is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL\BACKUP
btw, this fix assumes you have a default instance
installed. A named instance will have slightly different registry location and
filesystem path.
-ec
Edited by -
eyechart on 03/25/2005 21:04:27