I've found having Oracle\bin in your environment path will prevent you from deleting some .DLLs. Remove it and reboot.
-- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Neyman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 08:00 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: URGENT -- db already exist ??? > > Small addition to the instruction below: > > Sometimes, when trying to delete Oracle home directory (say D:\Ora8i), you > may get an error, saying "could not delete" some oracle .dll (don't > remember > the exact name) from d:\Ora8i\bin directory - file "is in use". > This may happen, because MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transactions > Coordinator service) when running (and by default it is set to startup > "automatically" on system boot) is loading before mentioned oracle .dll > into > memory for some reason (or without any reasons?:). Thus, you may get this > error, when trying to delete the .dll. So, stopping this service will > allow > to delete the file. > In fact, if you know, that you are not using this service (or any other > service set to startup "automatically") change it's settings to startup > manually. Why wasting system resources? > > Igor Neyman, OCP DBA > Perceptron, Inc. > (734)414-4627 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:00 PM > > > > Gotta love Microsoft. Here's some instructions I got off this list from > "Novice DBA" a while back on how to properly delete an Oracle Database on > NT/2000: > > Clearing up the System after an incomplete or improper installation of > Oracle > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > - > > Database Installation involves a set of procedures which need to be > followed > in order to have a proper working installation. If we follow these > procedures the Installation will be fine and usually problems related to > improper installation do not arise. But it is not always possible to get a > proper installation for the first time. This document is a troubleshooting > guide which would help to clear off the mess created by an improper > installation in a WindowsNT system. > > First we need to know that During installation Oracle writes into certain > directories (which we would have specified during installation) and also > into the WindowsNT registry. WindowsNT registry is a repository of > information about all the installed products and configurations on that > system. When we are installing Oracle a directory is created in the > registry > which is name oracle which is present in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ > > In the case of an improper installation the problems faced are > · We may not be able to uninstall the incomplete installation > · We may succeed in uninstalling the incomplete installation but yet face > problems with WindowsNT Services. > · Every time we log into WindowsNT we may get an error 'at least one > system > service failed to start' which may be an Oracle service from the earlier > installation. > · We may get an error while creating a database 'the database with the > name > you specified already exists please chose another name' which again may be > attributed to an improper un-installation.(I am not pretty comfortable > with > the Oracle's Un-installation utility because I feel it does not uninstall > everything) > > > Keeping the above points in mind it would be better if we know where > exactly > to look in case we are faced with such problems. When oracle is installed > it > makes entries in the following places > 1. The first and the foremost- the directory in which we install the > Oracle > database (say D:\Ora8i) > 2. The second is the inventory it maintains in the directory c:\program > files\oracle > 3. The third HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE in the registry > 4. The other place is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM . Inside this entry there > are three nodes controlset1,controlset2 and currentcontrolset. These nodes > in turn have 4 nodes out of which 2 are important to us. They are Enum and > Services. The Enum node has got two nodes out of which the 'root' node is > of > great interest to us because it stores details about all the services that > are running on a WindowsNT system. The other node of interest from the > controlsets is Services. The services node has got a list of services > running on a WindowsNT system. > > In case we need to clean up the system after an incomplete installation we > can follow the following steps > Delete the home directory where Oracle is installed > Delete the folder C:\program files\oracle Note:- This clears off > information > about any other Oracle utility installed on that system. > Delete the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE Warning:- > This > clears off information about any other Oracle utility installed on that > system and you may not be able to run those programs again. > Delete the Oracle Related services from > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CONTROLSETx/ENUM/ROOT/ . They will be named with > a > prefix LEGACY_ORACLE... Note:- You will have to use regedt32.exe to invoke > registry editor and not regedit. You will have to use the security menu > and > give permissions to yourself before deleting these entries. Else it will > not > work . It is to be noted that there are three control sets and all the > three > (in reality any 2) need to be cleared off these un-necessary entries. > Delete the Oracle Related services from > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CONTROLSETx/SERVICES . They will have a prefix > 'Oracle'. > ============================================================ > > > I have also attached a document having the same contents > Jared will this get a chance ?? > joking?? > coz > I am a > novice > > David A. Barbour > Oracle DBA, OCP > AISD > 512-414-1002 > > > > Leslie Lu > <leslie_y_lu@y To: Multiple recipients of > list > ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ahoo.com> cc: > Sent by: Subject: URGENT -- db already > exist ??? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > om > > > 10/25/2001 > 04:10 PM > Please respond > to ORACLE-L > > > > > > > Hi all, > > I created a 815 database on NT4. Since there is > something wrong with it, I used db config assist to > delete it. When I tried to create a database with > exactly the same name, I got message that "db already > exist." I already deleted entried in tnsnames and > listener.ora. I must use that particular name. Where > else does the name got logged? > > Thank you! > > Leslie > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Leslie Lu > 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). 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