Re: How to Clear the List of Oracle Client Homes install on a User Machine...

"John" <John_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:<cXJEc.37450$cj3.17182_at_lakeread01>...
> Hi.
>
> We had a PC that had Oracle Client 8.0.5 and 8.1.7 installed in Default_Home
> (c:\orant) and Default_Home1 (c:\oracle).
>
> A third party package, installed certain components of Oracle Client 9.0.2
> in another Oracle Home which it called ora92 (c:\oracle\ora92).
>
> Since we no longer need Clients 8.0.5 and 8.1.7, I decided to uninstall all
> Oracle clients and install Oracle client 9.0.2. I used Oracle installer to
> remove as many things as I could. Then, I used Microsoft Explorer to delete
> various Oracle directories. Finally, I opened Registry Editor and located
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.Software.Oracle and deleted that. I rebooted the
> machine, inserted the Client CD 9.0.2 and ran the setup.
>
> However, when I try to specify the destination Oracle home to install the
> program to, the drop down still appears to have the definition for
> Default_Home, Default_Home1, and Ora92 and their previously associated
> directories in there! Worse yet, it somehow automatically creates all those
> directories (c:\orant, c:\oracle, c:\oracle\ora92) and an "inventory"
> directory under them! How do I get ride of all of those Oracle Home
> definitions, so I can install Oracle Client from scratch? Where does Oracle
> keep this list of former Oracle Home / Directory combinations?
>
> Thanks

Hi,

The proper method is to delete registry keys such as HOME1, ID1, HOME2, ID2 etc.
that are under oracle folder, since you deleted the oracle folder I am not sure where they may be.

It is worth a try to search for those keys in the registry and delete these keys in pairs.

HTH. Suresh Bhat Received on Thu Jul 01 2004 - 15:35:25 CEST