Re: Oracle on Windows

joel garry wrote:

>
> Preston wrote:
> > DA Morgan wrote:
> >
> >
> > > My experience is that the uninstall,
> > > with Windows, often does not fully clean up the registry and
> > > definitely does not fully clean up ORACLE_HOME.
> >
> > This is true, but I can see we'll just have to agree to differ over
> > who's fault that is. The fact that thousands of other applications
> > manage it ok is proof enough for me though.
> >
>
> They do???
>
> I recently saw symantec be quite confused about whether it was
> installed on XP.
>
> Since it told me it wasn't, I installed something else. Then
> everything having to do with mail ran really, really slow.

Symantec are renowned for writing software that's virtually impossible to remove. Their AV in particular is a nightmare, & truly worthy of the title 'bloatware'.

-- 
Preston.