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I sent Oracle support my question, and I got a reply from them on how to
remove Oracle from your system, which I found to be interesting, and
thought you might like to know, as well.
<Oracle>
I am including detailed instructions below on deleting Oracle completley
from your system so you can start fresh.
Should you still have problems with the files, access your AUTOEXEC.BAT abd comment out the Oracle_Home PATH and reboot so that the Oracle files are not accessed. and then delete Oracle as indicated below.
Let me know if you need further asisstance.
Regards,
Felix
OracleINSTALL.
Removing or deinstalling Oracle software from an 95/98/NT operating
system
requires several steps to completly creating a 'clean' machine. This
document
explains what there needs to be done to remove all oracle software from
the
system.
Be careful since these steps will lead to removing all oracle software,
oracle
services and oracle registry entries from the system. So it is advisable
that
you first perform a backup, if required, of certain files like sqlnet
configuration files, database files, self-written scripts that are
stored
under the oracle home directory, etc.
Window NT
If Legato Storage Manager is installed on the system, remove it via the uninstaller
executable that is shipped with Legato. Start->Programs->Networker->Uninstall Networker
Caution: If Legato Storage Manager was installed independently of Oracle DO NOT
REMOVE LSM as your system's backup environment may be adversely affected
5. Start the Event Viewer, Log->Application, and clean up the application logs
for oracle.
6. Start the registry editor, this can be done via regedit or regedt32.
6.a) If the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) was used, go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle and write down the value of the
INST_LOC variable. This is showing you where the OUI software is
installed. This can then be used to remove the OUI from the
machine
afterwoods.
the ODBC key for any 'leftovers' of Oracle, if they exist remove them
as well.
6.c) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and
verify
that all services that start with 'Oracle' are removed. If this is not
the case remove the services starting with 'Oracle' (database related)
and the ones that start with 'OraWeb'(Oracle Application Server
related)
6.d) Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\
Application and look for keys that start with 'Oracle'. Normally they
should have been removed in step 5.
7. Close the registry editor.
8. Go to Start->control Panel->System->Environment select in the
'System Variables' window the PATH variable and remove the
%ORACLE_HOME%\BIN
directory. If JRE was installed by Oracle, remove the JRE path as
well.
e.g. : ...;C:\Orant\Bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin;...
9. Remove any icons and references from the start menu. They are listed into
the C:\Winnt\Profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs directory. Normally
they should be removed by the Oracle Installer in step 7.
Windows 95 & 98
3.a) If the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) was used, go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle and write down the value of the
INST_LOC variable. This is showing you where the OUI software is
installed. This can then be used to remove the OUI from the
machine
afterwoods.
the ODBC key for any 'leftovers' of Oracle, if they exist remove them
as well.
4. Close the registry editor.
5. Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and remove the %ORACLE_HOME%\bin and JRE
paths from the PATH.
e.g. : ...;C:\Orant\Bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin;...
7. Remove any icons and references from the start menu. They are listed into
the C:\Winnt\Profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs directory. Normally
the should be removed by the Oracle installer in step 1.
6. Remove the %ORACLE_HOME% from the machine, either by using the Windows
Explorer or from the command prompt.
7. If the oracle products were installed via the Oracle Universal Installer,
remove this also from the system. By default it is installed under the
oracle directory in C:\Program Files although you could have specified an
alternatively directory at the moment you installed the Oracle Universal
Installer (OUI). In that case look at the INST_LOC parameter you have noted
down in step 3.a.
8. Reboot you computer.
</Oracle>
In article <8a3nf4$5t0$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
grey1969_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> I was trying to patch my Oracle client on my NT 3 (sp5) box, and I ran
> into some troubles. The DLLs that the installer tried to replace were
> in use.
>
> There's nothing in the 2 startup folders. I disabled every service
that
> had Oracle attached to it, but still the files were locked. So I
> checked to see which process was holding the dlls, and it was
> winlogon.exe, so I can't even kill the process.
>
> So I checked the technet site, and came up with nothing, perhaps I'm
the
> first person to run into this.... I hope not.
>
>
>
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Received on Wed Mar 08 2000 - 17:16:49 CST
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