Re: Patch 9.2.0.7.0 for windows xp

LJQ wrote:
>
> Over the weekend I tried to install the latest Oracle patch 9.2.0.7.0
> over 9.2.0.1.0 on a XP box. However, strange thing happened:
>
> After executing the setup.exe, Oracle begins it's installation,
> but shortly after the installation procedure begins, a form poped
> up with a huge listing of services that need to be shut down in
> order for the update to continue. There were no errors in this
> instance,just a page full of service name needed to be shutdown
> (Includinig Windows client, compute brower, DHCP client, DNS client..
> but not including the Oracle ones because they have been shutdown
> before running setup.exe), you are only allow to choose either "retry",
> "cancel" or "ignore", no luck to proceed
>
> Anybody have similar experience?
>
> There is a like http://nixforums.org/about56236.html describing the
> same problem but there is no resolution.

1. take a note of your current PATH setting
2. remove all the Oracle ones from the path
3. set all Oracle services to manual
4. reboot

and then patch

hth
connor

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