Re: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

I asked about this a ways back when I wanted to remove only one version of Oracle. I ended up hosing up the registry and having to completely wipe the hard drive and start over.  Reinstall NT, etc, etc.  Be very careful with deleting registry entries :)  But, now I have a nice clean NT machine with 8i running.  Thank god it was a test machine! 
 
I did not find a way to remove only one version btw. I had to remove ALL oracle components and reinstall only the version I wanted to run. I also don't have metalink access, so no help from there. 

 
Ken
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• Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black">From: JOE TESTA To: <A title=ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com href="mailto:ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com">Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

  Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 6:56   AM
  Subject: RE: cleaning up oracle homes on   NT   

  I broke oracle on NT one time by messing with them, i   thought i'd do it manually, so i tinkered with registry entries, etc,   eventually had to blow away all of the oracle stuff and start   over.
   
  :(
   
  joe
   
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  href="mailto:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca">BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca 08/01/01   09:10AM >>>I don't want to remove all the oracle homes, just one   of many.I noticed they are in sequential order, home0, home1, home2,   etc.What would happen if I removed home0 or home1?  Would it   confuse Oracle?With the size of Oracle software, it is not always   practical to delete allthe Oracle homes when only one product has been   de-installed.  What if forexample you wanted to upgrade one piece of   software, but leave the othersintact?During installation we can   specify yet another oracle home to install thesoftware, but then the   registry gets cluttered with nonexistent   homeentries.Regards,Patrice BoivinSystems Analyst (Oracle   Certified DBA)    -----Original
  Message-----    From:    Jon Walthour   [SMTP:jonw_at_fuse.net]    Sent:    Wednesday,   August 01, 2001 9:40 AM    To:    Multiple   recipients of list ORACLE-L    Subject:      Re: cleaning up oracle homes on NT      Patrice:    If you're talking about the filesystem,   everything should be underthe    %ORACLE_HOME%   directory (usually c:\oracle\ora81 or the like).   Theregistry    entries are all in HKLM\Software\Oracle.   Just run regedit and deletethis    key to remove all   the Oracle registry keys. Also, the OUI will   notuninstall    itself. List, please correct me if I'm   mistaken here.    Jon Walthour   

• Original Message -----    To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>    Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:41 AM    Andrea asked about removing NT services.    What about Oracle homes?  The Oracle Universal Installer appears tobe doing    a poor job of cleaning those up when we de-install Oracle software.    Regards,    Patrice Boivin    Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)    Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes    Technology Services        | Services technologiques    Informatics Branch         | Direction de l'informatique    Maritimes Region, DFO      | Région des Maritimes, MPO    E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <<A href="mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca">mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>    --    Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: <A href="http://www.orafaq.com">http://www.orafaq.com    --    Author: Boivin, Patrice J      INET: BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca    Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051    San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / MailingLists    --------------------------------------------------------------------    To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message    to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in    the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L    (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may    also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).    --     Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: <A href="http://www.orafaq.com">http://www.orafaq.com   
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