Re: Oracle 8i and NT (newbie needs help)

Check out the release notes manual (full title: "Oracle8i Enterprise Edition for Windows NT and Windows 95/98 A68803-01") - also available online as

        http://docs.oracle.com/a69464/SHIPHOME/DOC/product 0/a68803.pdf

At the end is a section called "Creating a Clean Machine" which explains
how to remove all traces, also from the registry (including the removal of Oracle-specific services).

And, yes, it is slightly inelegant ;-)

/albert

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F Joseph Kelley wrote:
>
> I am posting this to both "comp.databases.oracle.misc" and
> "comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc". I apologize for the duplication, but
 part
> of this is oracle and part is NT and there is a lot of overlap, so I
 was
> not sure which was better ...
>
> Oracle 8.1.5 (8i) on NT4, SP5
> I want to completely remove Oracle from this system (prior to a
> reinstall). The "Oracle Installer" seems to uninstall Oracle, but
 cannot
> remove the 'services' (which include a "Listener" and some old Oracle
> "instances" from prev installs). A check of the Registry
> (HKEY LOCAL MACHINE, HKEY CURRENT CONFIG, have references to Oracle
 in
> various places: software, system/ControlSet001, system/ControlSet003,
> system/CurrentControlSet, and I don't know where else). There does
 not
> seem to be any Oracle documentation on getting rid of this stuff (at
 least
> i haven't seen any). Is it really necessary to go through the entire
> Registry searching for and removing every reference to "oracle" or
 what?
> That would seem ... well, let's just say it seems "inelegant". I
 assume
> I've just missed something in either the Oracle or NT documentation
 about
> removing services. Any help will be welcome.
> -- Joe Kelley
> jkelley_at_uga.edu

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