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I know that you already resolved the problem, but I thought I'd post a
"workaround" in case it rears it's ugly head again for you or someone
else.
I've had occurences when trying to reinstall Oracle software that was holding on to it's dll files. I've even seen this after I set all services to Manual start and rebooted the machine. What I did was find the dll files and rename them to something like filename.dll.old using Explorer. Even though you can't overwrite or delete the file, NT still lets you rename it. Whatever was holding on to the dll file is now holding on to the dll.old file instead. You can now reinstall your software. When you are done, reboot your machine. Whatever wanted the dll file will now grab your new one. Go back and delete the dll.old files you have hanging around.
HTH,
Brian
grey1969_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I was trying to patch my Oracle client on my NT 3 (sp5) box, and I ran
> into some troubles. The DLLs that the installer tried to replace were
> in use.
>
> There's nothing in the 2 startup folders. I disabled every service that
> had Oracle attached to it, but still the files were locked. So I
> checked to see which process was holding the dlls, and it was
> winlogon.exe, so I can't even kill the process.
>
> So I checked the technet site, and came up with nothing, perhaps I'm the
> first person to run into this.... I hope not.
>
> Then I thought I would uninstall Oracle, but since the files were in
> use, I couldn't get everything off of my machine.
>
> Has anyone run into this? Is there a solution? I don't want to wipe my
> machine clean for such a silly problem.....
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Before you buy.
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