Sounds like the registry didn't get completely restored after
the first uninstall. I've never used XP or the personal
edition of Oracle, but I would expect there is a double
entry in the Run key of your registery.
James Cummings
"Chaos, panic, disorder.... my work is done."
"Keith A. Jakubowski" <kjakubowsk_at_aol.com> wrote in message
news:3E0CF4CB.B69_at_aol.com...
> I tried installing nt817personal on my Gateway Windows XP Pentium 4
> laptop. It wouldn't install so after searching google, I renamed both
> symcjit.dlls and it then installed. However, after installing, I kept
> getting errors in java.exe (every 20 seconds or so). I then searched a
> little more on google and found out I had to install the Java 2 Runtime
> Environment before installing Oracle. I uninstalled Oracle and then
> installed the Java 2 Runtimes. I then reinstalled Oracle and everything
> now runs fine. However, when I boot up my laptop, Oracle is loading
> twice in task manager:
>
> oracle.exe SYSTEM 66,988 K
> oracle.exe SYSTEM 66,596 K
>
> If I terminate both of them, I cannot run SQL*Plus. If I terminate one
> of them, I CAN run SQL*Plus. Why do both of these get loaded at
> start-up? Is there any way to not load both of them? They're hogging
> my memory.
>
> Keith
Received on Sat Dec 28 2002 - 09:07:45 CST
