Andy Hassall wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2007 06:43:14 -0800, "steph" <stephan0h_at_yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> >One quick question (hoping for a quick answer ... ;-)
> >
> >I've installed Oracle 10G XE on my notebook (windows XP). Now I want to
> >remove it. Have tried with "control panel"->"add/remove programs" but
> >that did not work. When clicking on the remove button nothing happens.
> >
> >What are my options? Universal Installer? (with XE?) Manual uninstall?
> >(How?)
>
> Early versions of the XE installer had various cases where it would do
> nothing, or would hang, or just exit without messages part way through, so it's
> possible you've hit one of these.
>
> I remember that some of the cases were easily fixed by changing certain things
> that confused the assumptions made in the installer - I think at least one was
> due to seemingly reasonable NLS_LANG environment variables settings that would
> break the installer scripts.
>
> Unfortunately I don't remember the details, but have you searched the Oracle
> XE forum on otn.oracle.com?
>
> As far as manual uninstall, the installer does put its tentacles out across a
> fair bit of the registry, so it's not necessarily straightforward. Again, I
> think I remember there being manual clearout steps on the XE forum - have a
> look there.
>
> --
> Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
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Thanks for the valuable information, Andy. Oops, forgot to register XE.
But I need to to get access to the forum ... well, ok ...
Received on Wed Jan 10 2007 - 04:24:11 CST
