Re: help??? Please deinstall Oracle 8

Trying to use Oracle installer to completely uninstall Oracle doesn't work on NT. Never did. This is what I usually do:

1. Use Oracle installer to uninstall as much as it can. At best it will leave only Oracle installer itself. At worst it will complain and leave a bunch of stuff. Oh well.
2. Delete the Oracle Home directory and everything in it.
3. Delete the Oracle branch from the registry:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE 4) Delete any remaining Oracle Services. These can be found in the registry under:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

5) Remove Oracle from the Path. Use Control Panel ---> System ---> Environment and modify the PATH system variable. Look for any other Oracle enviroment variables and get rid of them.

6) Reboot.

This should leave you with a relatively clean base to re-install on.

Geraldine Grubb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am testing out installing and deinstalling Oracle 8 on a NT system.
> It wont let me just go to the installer and choose all the products to
> remove (enterprise edition, designer 2000, and developer 2000). I have
> tried removing each product together and in every sequence possible.
> However, the machine hangs up and the NT services says the Installer is
> not responding. I have disabled all the Oracle services in NT.
>
> Help, how can I get rid of all the products?
>
> You can reply to my email also.
>
> --Geraldine
> ggrubb_at_indiana.edu
Received on Sat Aug 08 1998 - 09:02:19 CDT