Thanks so much to everyone who replied! It seems to be working now. And, I agree completely with the RedHat idea, but this is my consulting laptop, and Windoze is very much the name of the game. Actually, at home I have RedHat, but I don't have Oracle -- it's running Postgres, which I must say I am LOVING!!! I'm working on a cool little site using Postgres and PHP on Apache and Linux. Open Source Rules! Back to expensive Oracle-land... Diana Duncan TITAN Technology Partners One Copley Parkway, Ste 540 Morrisville, NC 27560 VM: 919.466.7337 x 316 F: 919.466.7427 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rodd Holman <rodney.holman@lod To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> genet.com> cc: Sent by: Fax to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Removing Oracle products from NT 05/03/2001 04:18 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L Diana, <SMILE ON> Get RedHat 7 CD-ROM Insert into CD-ROM drive Reboot and answer promts <SMILE OFF> In reality. To gut the machine of all Oracle stuff. 1. Delete all the stuff in the Oracle directories. 2. Remove all the Oracle stuff from the start menu. 3. BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY!! 4. If you skipped step 3 go back and do step 3. 5. In regedit, remove the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/ORACLE key. Then start at the top of the registry and search for oracle, oradac, and orant (if that was the tree your Oracle was installed in). Delete the keys you come to that are associated with these things. 6. Reboot your machine. Oracle is gone now. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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).