The BDE on my computer is broken. I need to reinstall it. However the
install won't  do so. It stops since a running BDE is found and requires
to shut down BDE first.

I check my NT services and didn't find BDE service that I can manually
stop. The BDE
administrator doesn't work now since BDE is broken with error msg
"Object cannot be
found".

Thanks,

Your Registry points to the directory that it is installed..
When you run a BDE application, the BDE library gets loaded into memory
so that the library calls can be made.

When you shut down the application, the BDE libraries get unloaded.
(DLLS)

I might suggest doing the following:

Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry Expand that.

Under the SOFTWARE key, is a key named "Borland".
In that section are to keys of interest "BLW32" and "Database Engine".
Delete JUST those keys.

Then Delete the directory those keys point to, and reinstall the BDE
form the Delphi
CD via the "Custom" setup option...

Hope that helps!

Rkr