Re: How can I rid my workstation of des6i cleanly??
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:43:06 +0100
Message-ID: <3c0246ef$1_at_news.psi.ch>
Hi
On NT I used the following Procedure. It removes all installed Oracle products on the machine. No Garantee that it works on W2000.
hope this helps
N. Stern
Extracted from Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release Notes.
In rare situations, some users may want to correct serious system problems
by completely
removing Oracle products from their system. This is not recommended as an
easy way to fix
problems, especially common ones. Only create a Clean Machine as a last
resort, and only if you
want to remove all Oracle products from your system. Complete the following
steps to create a
Clean Machine.
Note: The following Clean Machine instructions assume an OFA (Optimal
Flexible Architecture)
structure.
Warning: This will remove all Oracle products, Oracle services, and Oracle
registry entries
from your computer.
On Windows NT:
- Ensure you are logged in as a user with Administrator privileges.
- Using regedit (at the command prompt, type regedit), go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE and delete the ORACLE key.
- Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\odbc.
4 Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services, and remove all
keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services that begin
with
ORACLE.
5. Open
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application,
and remove all keys under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application
that begin with ORACLE.
6. Close regedit.
7. From the Control Panel, open System.
8. If JRE was installed by Oracle, remove the %ORACLE_HOME%\BIN path and the
JRE path.
For example, you may see a path similar to this one: C: \ORACLE\ORA81\BIN;G:
\Program
Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin. Go to Start > Control Panel > System >
Environment tab.
Click on the system variable path and modify the path.
9. Delete Icons from : \Winnt\Profiles\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\Oracle -
and : \Winnt\Profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle Installation
Products. Where is the previous HOME name.
- Delete : \Program Files\Oracle (from the Windows NT Explorer or from the command prompt).
- Reboot your computer.
- Delete all ORACLE_BASE directories (You can find the Oracle homes listed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ORACLE_HOMES).
- In regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE.
- Delete the ORACLE key.
- Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\odbc.
- Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and remove your %ORACLE_HOME%\bin and JRE paths from the path setting.
- From the Windows Explorer (or from the command prompt), delete the Oracle directory (Oracle Base).
- Delete : \Program Files\Oracle (from the Windows NT Explorer or from the command prompt).
- Delete Icons from : \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle - and :
\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle Installation Products. Where is the
previous HOME name. - Reboot your computer.