RE: Registry question

Get this book : Mastering Windows NT Server 4 (7th Edition) by Mark Minasi. Everything you ever wanted to know about NT. It's all in there. There are many other books on NT, but I have the 5th edition of this book.

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> From: Anand [SMTP:karhadkar_at_rolta.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 11:06 AM
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> Subject: Registry question
>
> Hi guru's,
> Can anybody tell me where can i get detail information about windows NT
> Registry.(ie how information is stored in registry,how one can modify that
> etc.)
> Thanx in advance
> Regards,
> Anand.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> DBarbour_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:00 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
> If you're on NT/2000 you'll have to edit the registry, make sure you're
> not
> using terminal services, and about 42 other things I discovered about
> Windoze this past weekend. I've reproduced a little checklist novicedba
> posted here a while ago that helped me clean out my 4 installs. You MUST
> install from the server or terminal services console. The install MUST
> have gone through to completion. You MAY have to delete and recreate your
> tnsnames.ora file due to unspecified corruption (Oracle Note). You CAN'T
> use svrmgrl from a machine other than the server as the bequeath protocol
> doesn't function properly on NT/2000 over the network. You SHOULD be on
> UNIX. I don't like this NT/2000 for much of anything besides test stuff.
> We're putting a 6,000 user app on it an I don't feel very good today. Oh
> yeah, you're going to have problems with the listener too. And if you
> have
> written a .bat file since the late '80s, brush up on your DOS commands.
> Gee this is fun.
>
>
> Hi,
> We run our databases on NT and we face this problem once in a while. For
> the
> benefit of our consultants working on the client side I had prepared a
> document.
> This has worked perfectly for me as well as for our consultants on the
> client side.
> I am aware that the present problem is removing one version of Oracle and
> not cleaning up the entire oracle installation. My document deals with
> removing all oracle products or as the heading says clearing up the system
> (of ORALCE?)
> ==========================================================================
> ==
>
> =================================
>
> Clearing up the System after an incomplete or improper installation of
> Oracle
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> -
>
> Database Installation involves a set of procedures which need to be
> followed
> in order to have a proper working installation. If we follow these
> procedures the Installation will be fine and usually problems related to
> improper installation do not arise. But it is not always possible to get a
> proper installation for the first time. This document is a troubleshooting
> guide which would help to clear off the mess created by an improper
> installation in a WindowsNT system.
>
> First we need to know that During installation Oracle writes into certain
> directories (which we would have specified during installation) and also
> into the WindowsNT registry. WindowsNT registry is a repository of
> information about all the installed products and configurations on that
> system. When we are installing Oracle a directory is created in the
> registry
> which is name oracle which is present in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/
>
> In the case of an improper installation the problems faced are
> · We may not be able to uninstall the incomplete installation
> · We may succeed in uninstalling the incomplete installation but yet face
> problems with WindowsNT Services.
> · Every time we log into WindowsNT we may get an error 'at least one
> system
> service failed to start' which may be an Oracle service from the earlier
> installation.
> · We may get an error while creating a database 'the database with the
> name
> you specified already exists please chose another name' which again may be
> attributed to an improper un-installation.(I am not pretty comfortable
> with
> the Oracle's Un-installation utility because I feel it does not uninstall
> everything)
>
>
> Keeping the above points in mind it would be better if we know where
> exactly
> to look in case we are faced with such problems. When oracle is installed
> it
> makes entries in the following places
> 1. The first and the foremost- the directory in which we install the
> Oracle
> database (say D:\Ora8i)
> 2. The second is the inventory it maintains in the directory c:\program
> files\oracle
> 3. The third HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE in the registry
> 4. The other place is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM . Inside this entry there
> are three nodes controlset1,controlset2 and currentcontrolset. These nodes
> in turn have 4 nodes out of which 2 are important to us. They are Enum and
> Services. The Enum node has got two nodes out of which the 'root' node is
> of
> great interest to us because it stores details about all the services that
> are running on a WindowsNT system. The other node of interest from the
> controlsets is Services. The services node has got a list of services
> running on a WindowsNT system.
>
> In case we need to clean up the system after an incomplete installation we
> can follow the following steps
> Delete the home directory where Oracle is installed
> Delete the folder C:\program files\oracle Note:- This clears off
> information
> about any other Oracle utility installed on that system.
> Delete the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE Warning:-
> This
> clears off information about any other Oracle utility installed on that
> system and you may not be able to run those programs again.
> Delete the Oracle Related services from
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CONTROLSETx/ENUM/ROOT/ . They will be named with
> a
> prefix LEGACY_ORACLE... Note:- You will have to use regedt32.exe to invoke
> registry editor and not regedit. You will have to use the security menu
> and
> give permissions to yourself before deleting these entries. Else it will
> not
> work . It is to be noted that there are three control sets and all the
> three
> (in reality any 2) need to be cleared off these un-necessary entries.
> Delete the Oracle Related services from
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CONTROLSETx/SERVICES . They will have a prefix
> 'Oracle'.
> ============================================================
>
>
> David A. Barbour
> Oracle DBA, OCP
> AISD
> 512-414-1002
>
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> Hi Guru's,
>
> I was having Oracle 8.1.6 Server on my server initially.Due to some reason
> I
> deinstalled it.
> But after installing it again,after installation i am not able to start
> 'SVRMGRL'
> It's giving me error ORA-12560 TNS:protocol adapter error.So i can't up my
> database.
> can anybody help me.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Anand
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