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

devensaoji_at_gmail.com (Deven Saoji) wrote in message news:<525cdf93.0407030959.4f39b994_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi John,
> You will have to remove the entries of ORACLE_HOME from the registry.
> This has to be done with care.
> You will have to delete some entries from Windows Registry
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\OracleServiceORCL\
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\
>
> Go to each of the above and look which values and keys you have to delete.
>
> Regards
> Deven Saoji
>
> "John" <John_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:<wUJEc.37431$cj3.33903_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

I do not have the note id or title but I have seen an Oracle support note available on metalink that lists the steps to manually clean up the Windows registry so that a re-install will run cleanly. If Deven's advice does not fix the problem the note may be worth searching for.

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Tue Jul 06 2004 - 17:08:02 CEST