Re: Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows XP

"David A. Levy" <david.a.levy_at_rogers.com> wrote in message news:GoMQ7.22836$2Fd.9596_at_news1.bloor.is...
> Hope somebody can help me:
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> Trying the above - Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows XP. I got this working fine on
> one machine, but on another I'm getting a message that says the current
user
> does not have enough permissions to access the registry. Does anyone know
> how to correct this? The user in question is the administrator user, and
can
> certainly access the registry - using regedit at any rate. Unlike Windows
> NT/2000, there seems to be no tool on XP that allows finer grain of
> adjusting the permissions of the user. All I can do is set the user type
to
> either "Administartor" or "Normal".
>
> Thanks in advance,
> David.
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8.1.7 is not certified on XP and not guaranteed to work. Why be so audacious to install it?
Either downgrade the server to w2k or upgrade the database to 9i. Be sure to run XP professional when upgrading.

Regards

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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