Re: I tried a registry edit

    To uninstall Oracle you use the Oracle installer, not control panel/add remove. You will also have to clean up the registry and remove files by hand.

    But first check that your installer itself is Y2K compliant. The one you need is 3.1.1.0.0c or higher. (I may have the version wrong since Oracle changed it at least once. Check their web site to see or browse through this forum for a recent post by W. Scott Moore.

    If you have a bad installer correct that problem and try adding the extra item you want to install.

    If your installer is good you may have to remove Oracle completely and start over.

Van

sonarboy <sonar11_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:85ko9a$7b$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I did try editing the registry. There were several places where the
> path was indeed Z: and I changed it to C:
> Then, when I ran the installation program, the home path was changed to
> C:, so I could then do the installation of Oracle.
> The problem is that after this was done and I ran the install program
> again to install one extra item, I got an error message saying "This
> program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." I
> tried it several more times and it kept on happening, even after
> rebooting. So my thinking is that there may have been another registry
> entry that needed to be changed in order for an install on C: to work.
> Oddly enough, when I went to Control Panel - Add/Remove, there was no
> Oracle listed there. So perhaps I have to go back to my original
> version of the registry (I backed it up), delete the Oracle directory
> from the hard drive and from there try something else to resolve the
> problem, whatever that may be. Thanks for your response. Any more
> ideas?
>
> Patrick
>
>
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Received on Thu Jan 13 2000 - 16:23:29 CST