How do you purge an NT machine (of oracle)

From: Debbie Lennartsson <deb_at_adaptivepartners.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 01:57:50 -0400
Message-Id: <10603.115814@fatcity.com>

Here are instructions that were once posted. I haven't tried it myself, but at quick glance, it looks right. /Deb

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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ODTUG-DES2K-L Subject: Re: Oracle 8 PE uninstallation under W98

This procedure has worked really well for me. both NT and Win9x versions here.

In rare (yeah, right) situations, some users may want to correct serious system problems by completely removing Oracle products from their systems. This is not recommended as an easy way to fix problems, especially common ones. Only create a Clean Machine as a last resort and only if you want to remove all Oracle products from your system.

· Note: The following Clean Machine instructions assume an OFA (Optimal Flexible Architecture) structure.
· Warning : This will remove all Oracle products, Oracle services and Oracle registry entries from your computer.

On Windows NT:

Ensure you are logged in as a user with Administrator privileges
Using regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE and delete the ORACLE key.
Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\odbc
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and remove all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services that begin with ORACLE
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application and remove all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application that begin with ORACLE.
Close regedit
From the Control Panel, open System
If JRE was installed by Oracle, remove the %ORACLE_HOME%\BIN path and the JRE path. For example, you may see a path similar to this one: C:\ORACLE\ORA81\BIN; C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin. Go to Start > Control Panel>System Environment tab. Click on the system variable path and modify the path.
Delete Icons form <system_drive>:\Winnt\Profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle -<HOME> and <system_drive>:\Winnt\Profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle Installation Products. Where <HOME> is the previous HOME name.
Delete <system_drive>:\Program Files\Oracle (from Windows NT Explorer or from the command prompt)
Reboot your computer.
Delete all ORACLE_BASE directories. (you can find the Oracle Homes listed in KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE_HOMES).

On Windows 95 and Windows 98:

In regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE.
Delete the ORACLE key.
Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\odbc
Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and remove your %ORACLE_HOME%\bin and JRE paths from the path setting
From the Windows Explorer or from the command prompt; delete the Oracle directory (Oracle Base)
Delete <system_drive>:\Program Files\Oracle (from Windows Explorer or the command prompt)
Delete Icons from <system_drive>:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle - <HOME> and <system_drive>:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle Installation Products where <HOME> is the previous HOME name.
Reboot your computer.

Trudy

At 11:14 AM 01/12/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>If you want to completely remove Oracle from the machine the easiest is to
delete the ORAWINxx directory and any reference to it in the environment path AND also remove the entries from the Registry - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE --> ORACLE
>
>Amin Adatia (CogniCASE )
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>>>> Stanislav Rabinovich <slava_at_pop.dn.net> 2000/01/12 13:56:22 >>>
>Hello everybody,
>I am brand new in database design, and I started Oracle 8 Personal Edition
>on my personal computer under Windows 98.
>Yesterday I tried to do backup and recovery procedures by using
>Backup and Recovery managers, and my database is completely crashed now...
>Since I need to have some demo-databases, I decided to reinstall Oracle 8.
>If I am doing that over the old installation, I have some problems during
>the installation process, and Oracle works not correctly (for example
>import from MS Access doesn't work).
>So, now I am looking for correct UNinstallation procedure of Oracle 8 PE
>under Windows 98. If I see in ADD/REMOVE programs Setting menu of Windows
98,
>I don't see Oracle here at all.
>If somebody have such experience or read about that in the Internet, give
me
>a link please. Thanks in advance for your help,
>
>-- Stanislav Rabinovich
>.
>
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