Hi, If anyone has access to the forum and finds the manual uninstall
steps, can you post them here.
I installed XE, couldn't uninstall it. Tried removing the regedit and
directly deleting the xe directories on the filesystem. When I try to
reinstall, the installer exits as it thinks XE is installed already.
Can't access the forum myself.
Much appreciated....
steph wrote:
> 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
> > http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space :: disk and FTP usage analysis tool
>
> 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 17 2007 - 05:02:34 CST
