Suresh Bhat wrote:
> "John" <John_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:<cXJEc.37450$cj3.17182_at_lakeread01>...
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>We had a PC that had Oracle Client 8.0.5 and 8.1.7 installed in Default_Home
>>(c:\orant) and Default_Home1 (c:\oracle).
>>
>>A third party package, installed certain components of Oracle Client 9.0.2
>>in another Oracle Home which it called ora92 (c:\oracle\ora92).
>>
>>Since we no longer need Clients 8.0.5 and 8.1.7, I decided to uninstall all
>>Oracle clients and install Oracle client 9.0.2. I used Oracle installer to
>>remove as many things as I could. Then, I used Microsoft Explorer to delete
>>various Oracle directories. Finally, I opened Registry Editor and located
>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.Software.Oracle and deleted that. I rebooted the
>>machine, inserted the Client CD 9.0.2 and ran the setup.
>>
>>However, when I try to specify the destination Oracle home to install the
>>program to, the drop down still appears to have the definition for
>>Default_Home, Default_Home1, and Ora92 and their previously associated
>>directories in there! Worse yet, it somehow automatically creates all those
>>directories (c:\orant, c:\oracle, c:\oracle\ora92) and an "inventory"
>>directory under them! How do I get ride of all of those Oracle Home
>>definitions, so I can install Oracle Client from scratch? Where does Oracle
>>keep this list of former Oracle Home / Directory combinations?
>>
>>Thanks
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> The proper method is to delete registry keys such as HOME1, ID1,
> HOME2, ID2 etc.
> that are under oracle folder, since you deleted the oracle folder I am
> not sure where they may be.
>
> It is worth a try to search for those keys in the registry and delete
> these keys in pairs.
>
> HTH.
>
> Suresh Bhat
Suresh have you ever tryed to un-install Oracle! ever!ever!
Robert
Received on Fri Jul 02 2004 - 01:09:23 CDT
