Check that you have no oracle services left using the services applet that
comes with xp. if you have remove them using the xp resource kit. Next fire
up regedit and delete HKLM\software\oracle. Now restart the machine and you
should be able to remove the oracle directory tree.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Christopher Reed" <christopher.reed_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:2H659.5750$Ke2.476691_at_bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I installed oracle 8i Enterprise and used the deinstaller to unistall
> everything. My problem is that there is a folder which is READ Only(I have
> tried to change this folder to archive with no luck) it is
> ora81-bin-database-network. I have tried everthing to remove this folder
> from C-drive with no sucess. "I get an error saying the is folder is write
> proteced and is being used by antoher user"
>
> Is it possible to remove these folders with out reinstalling winXp
>
>
> thanks
>
> Chris
>
>
Received on Sat Aug 10 2002 - 07:01:45 CDT
