Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.germany.com!news.nask.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!atlantis.news.tpi.pl!news.tpi.pl!not-for-mail From: "User" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: How to uninstall Oracle8 (Server) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:22:18 +0200 Organization: tp.internet - http://www.tpi.pl/ Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <1126192834.729722@yasure> <1126195049.170902@yasure> <1126196386.318319.35910@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pn73.warszawa.sdi.tpnet.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-2"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: atlantis.news.tpi.pl 1126268524 8238 213.76.252.73 (9 Sep 2005 12:22:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:22:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:251147 Thanks for youyr reply. > You could (if the environment allows) restart the server, after you've shutdown > and either removed Oracle Services or disabled them. The file locks will then be gone. I can see that it's my main problem at the moment - how to remove services, generally, not only those connected with Oracle. Probably I should know it, but I must admit that I don't. Could you tell me please how to do it? I mean how to remove services not to stop them or to switch as manual, of course. Reagrds User