Re: ORA-12560 on NT

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.03.11.20.02.35.814820_at_yahoo.com.au>...
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:37:56 +0200, Tanel Poder wrote:
>
> >> Well, yes I did actually. Point being that if you do the uninstall using
> >> the uninstaller (!), then you are left with some services hanging around
> >> (old database ones, for example) but no tools with which to delete them.
> >> Oradim, for example, gets removed as part of the uninstall. As does the
> >> database creation assistant (which is used to remove databases and their
> >> associated services).
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you've uninstalled oradim, or it should fail removing services for some
> > reason, a dirty way of getting rid of them is to erase relevant keys from
> > registry, under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\
> > Just look for Oracle* keys under that. If you got multiple Oracle Homes,
> > then before removing you can check the ImagePath variable under each key, to
> > see in which oracle_home given service's executable lies.
> >
> > Tanel.
>
> Thanks Tanel: I did mention in my original reply to our OP that in the
> event of being too eager to click the Uninstall option, it's time to get
> down and dirty with the registry (although I also mentioned that there are
> service uninstallers out there that are shareware, and which will do at
> least part of the job for you -you still have Oracle stuff in your
> registry after that, but that is frequently not a major drama if you are
> about to re-install very much along the same lines as your first install).
>
> Regards
> HJR
there are some tools in the W2K Resource Kit worth downloading. Here is a non-MS link:
http://www.dynawell.com/support/ResKit/win2k.asp

delsrv sounds like its worth a shot.

C:\Program Files\Resource Kit>delsrv OracleServiceO8IBEGIN The command completed successfully.

Wow - delsrv.exe - kills services dead.
Not even marked as "Disabled" - just plain gone.

I'm impressed.

Paul Received on Fri Mar 14 2003 - 00:03:35 CST