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Re: Oracle home D:\ORANT is already used by Windows

From: Chris Kempster <c.kempster_at_cowan.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:44:37 +0800
Message-ID: <6hgtsu$gu$1@news.cowan.edu.au>


I had this problem the other day, there is an oracle.ini in your windows directory that oracle will use to check ora home of 16bit apps (if you prev or accidently installed any), win95s apps will use the registery, but before you go an delete the ini, make a backup :)

Chris.

Harry Yuen wrote in message <3536f4a3.510650160_at_news.istar.ca>...
>I was trying to install (reinstall) programmer/2000 on a NT 4.0. After
>the choose language part I got this message saying that my Oracle home
>D:\ORANT is already used by Windows and then the force out of the
>Installer. I always used the Oracle default for home and D:\ORANT
>still contains my entire Developer 2000. I suspect there's a problem
>with my registry. I can't afford a total reinstall to diagnostic the
>cause of this, can you help?
>
>Harry Yuen
>hyuen_at_mdsmetro.com
Received on Mon Apr 20 1998 - 20:44:37 CDT

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