Re: How do I uninstall the Oracle services in W2K?

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:96at51$rrr$1_at_soap.pipex.net...
> For the record the NT4 Resource Kit Utility is called sc.exe (catchy huh
> they'll be naming editors with two letter abbreviations next :-)).

I'd swear blind it had a name something like instsrv.exe. Anything remotely resembling that on the disk???

Regards
HJR Usual
> disclaimer about regedit goes here. The oracle services are defined by
> registry entries under IIRC HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services - but
 do
> a search for Oracle - and the relevantly named keys can be deleted from
 the
> registry in the event of a service deletion utility not existing for
 win2K.
>
> regards
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message
> news:3a88e03b_at_news.iprimus.com.au...
> > If you've already uninstalled Oracle, that's unfortunate -because the
 Oracle
> > utility "oradim" can be used to delete Oracle services. The syntax
 escapes
> > me precisely, but it is something like oradim -delete SERVICENAME (and
 you
> > just type in the exact name of the service as the SERVICENAME
 parameter).
> >
> > If you don't want to reinstall Oracle just to get oradim, it may be time
 to
> > get hold of the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. I can't speak with any
 authority
> > on this, but certainly in the NT4 Resource Kit there was a program
 called
> > something like INSTSRV.EXE which would allow you to delete ANY sort of
> > service. I would imagine (but don't know for certain) that a similar
> > utility is provided with the W2K resource kit.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Joe Schmoe" <joe_at_nospam.org> wrote in message
> > news:7hvg8t4k5uvgaoj4rjg4mo721ol135dnik_at_4ax.com...
> > > I installed Oracle 8i to study for iDBO on my Win2K computer,
> > > and have since uninstalled it, but several Oracle services are still
> > > resident on my computer. I tried a reinstall to delete them, but it
> > > says I cannot even create a new database with the same name as the
> > > services that are installed. How do I get rid of these?
> > >
> > > OracleServiceSales
> > > OracleServiceSales2K
> > > OracleOraHome81TNSListener
> > >
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Received on Tue Feb 13 2001 - 04:33:08 CST