Wednesday, August 10, 2005

How to manually remove Oracle 9i in WIndows

  • Uninstall all Oracle components using the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI).
  • Run regedit.exe and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE key. This contains registry entires for all Oracle products.
  • Delete any references to Oracle services left behind in the following part of the registry:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Ora*
    It should be pretty obvious which ones relate to Oracle.
  • Reboot your machine.
  • Delete the C:\Oracle directory, or whatever directory is your ORACLE_BASE.
  • Delete the C:\Program Files\Oracle directory.
  • Empty the contents of your c:\temp directory.
  • Empty your recycle bin.
At this point your machine will be as clean of Oracle components as it can be without a complete OS reinstall.

Remember, manually editing your registry can be very destructive and force an OS reinstall so only do it as a last resort.

2 Comments:

Blogger MAHIMA said...

thanks for the information it really helped me out i will surely ask any further query from u thnks a lot

11:55 PM  
Blogger MAHIMA said...

thanks for the information it really helped me out i will surely ask any further query from u thnks a lo

11:56 PM  

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