I've found having Oracle\bin in your environment path will
prevent you from deleting some .DLLs. Remove it and reboot.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Neyman [SMTP:ineyman_at_perceptron.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 08:00 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: URGENT -- db already exist ???
>
> Small addition to the instruction below:
>
> Sometimes, when trying to delete Oracle home directory (say D:\Ora8i), you
> may get an error, saying "could not delete" some oracle .dll (don't
> remember
> the exact name) from d:\Ora8i\bin directory - file "is in use".
> This may happen, because MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transactions
> Coordinator service) when running (and by default it is set to startup
> "automatically" on system boot) is loading before mentioned oracle .dll
> into
> memory for some reason (or without any reasons?:). Thus, you may get this
> error, when trying to delete the .dll. So, stopping this service will
> allow
> to delete the file.
> In fact, if you know, that you are not using this service (or any other
> service set to startup "automatically") change it's settings to startup
> manually. Why wasting system resources?
>
> Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> Perceptron, Inc.
> (734)414-4627
> ineyman_at_perceptron.com
>
>
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> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:00 PM
>
>
>
> Gotta love Microsoft. Here's some instructions I got off this list from
> "Novice DBA" a while back on how to properly delete an Oracle Database on
> NT/2000:
>
> 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'.
> ============================================================
>
>
> I have also attached a document having the same contents
> Jared will this get a chance ??
> joking??
> coz
> I am a
> novice
>
> David A. Barbour
> Oracle DBA, OCP
> AISD
> 512-414-1002
>
>
>
> Leslie Lu
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> 10/25/2001
> 04:10 PM
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> Hi all,
>
> I created a 815 database on NT4. Since there is
> something wrong with it, I used db config assist to
> delete it. When I tried to create a database with
> exactly the same name, I got message that "db already
> exist." I already deleted entried in tnsnames and
> listener.ora. I must use that particular name. Where
> else does the name got logged?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Leslie
>
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