RE: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-05 Thread A. Bardeen

I find the following doc on metalink helpful:

Note: 124353.1 "How to Manually Remove all Oracle
Components on Microsoft Windows Platforms"

HTH,

-- Anita

--- Kevin Kostyszyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No not really, but you forgot several steps, the
> instructions below don't
> create a completely clean machine.
>   -Original Message-
>   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Jyoti Randive
>   Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:35 PM
>   To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>   Subject: Re: Removing Oracle products from NT
> 
> 
>   You can try the Oracle universal Installer to
> unistall.
> 
>   More rough way is to shutdown oracle db,listener,
> etc. , shutdown the
> services, remove/disbale  the services.
> 
>   ..and then go to registry and remove everything
> under
> (local_machine->software ->oracle)
> 
>   Then you can delete the whole Oracle home tree.
> The reinstall or whatever
> you want to do!
> 
>   Believe me , sometimes windows Oracle is a
> pain,specially cleaing up for a
> reinstall. But after all we are Unix guys! Just the
> beat the .. out  of
> windows!
> 
>   Hope I do not trigger another long discussion
> here! :-)
> 
>   HTH.
> 
>   Jyoti
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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Re: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-04 Thread Charles Yuan


Whew.Here is a slightly quicker version. After making all necessary
backups, especially the registry. Stop all your Oracle services, uninstall
the Oracle software, delete all the Oracle folders and remove your Oracle
.ini files from Win NT boot directory. 
Then use Registry Ripper  http://www.techweb.com/winmag/columns/powertools/ptripper.htm
, excellent freeware to easily find all of the Oracle entries, including
all the services. (Registry Ripper will allow you to restore the deleted
entries)
When you reboot, all of the services and Oracle entries will be gone.
A clean machine You can also clean the orphan dll's from your system
using the excellent free AnalogX
- Downloads [DLL Archive] this also will allow you to restore removed
dll's.
Also here are some other excellent free NT system utilities PricelessSystemUtilities:
the best in Windows © System Utilities Freeware .
Charles Yuan
Oracle DBA
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"Eric D. Pierce" wrote:
 Doc ID:
 Note:74790.1
 Subject:
 Cleanly Deinstalling
RDBMS
 Software from 95/98/NT
 Type:
 BULLETIN
 Status:
 PUBLISHED
  
Content Type:

TEXT/PLAIN
  
Creation Date:

08-OCT-1999
  
Last Revision Date:

05-SEP-2000
  
Language:

USAENG
 
 Cleanly Deinstalling Oracle RDBMS Software from Windows 95/98/NT
Machines
 
 Purpose
 
 This bulletin explains how to remove Oracle software from a Windows
95, 98,
 or NT system.
 Scope & Application
 ---
 This bulletin assumes the reader has a thorough understanding
of the
 operating system and the Windows registry.
 
 Related Documents
 -
 [NOTE:61621.1] Recreating Oracle7 / Oracle8 services and instances
from

the command line
 Introduction
 
 Removing or deinstalling Oracle software from an 95/98/NT operating
system
 requires several steps to completely creating a 'clean' machine.
This
 document explains what must be done to remove all Oracle software
from the
 system.
 Warning
 ---
 1)  Backup
 Be careful, because these steps remove all
Oracle software, Oracle services,
 and Oracle registry entries from the system.
 So it is advisable that you first perform
a backup, if required, of
 certain files like:
    SQL*Nnet configuration files
    Database files
    Self-written scripts
 that are stored under the oracle home directory,
etc.
 2)  The following procedures require the editing of Windows
registry, which is a
 potentially dangerous operation. There is
no undo option in the Registry
 Editor.
    Content
    ---
    A. 32-bit on Windows NT
    B. 32-bit on Win95/Win98
    C. 16-bit
    A. 32-bit on Windows NT
    ---
    1.  Ensure that you are logged in as a user
with Administrator privileges.
    2.  Stop all Oracle-related services and all
Oracle programs.
    3.  Remove the database services via the oradim
command. This can be
    done via ORADIMXX -DELETE
-SID  or via the 'SC' tool of the
    resource kit.
    For a full explanation on
using the ORADIM command, see [NOTE:61621.1].
    As from 8.1.6, the method
for deinstalling is to first run Net8CA
    in Deinstall mode, then
run DBCA to delete a database, then run OUI
    to deinstall the products. 
At this point, all services should be
    removed.
   4.  Start the ODBC administrator applet, if installed,
and remove any
   Oracle DSN definitions.
   5.  Remove the Oracle software via the Oracle installer
or the
   Universal Installer (8.1.5 and
onwards). Make sure that all
   services related to Oracle are
stopped first.
   Note that you cannot remove the
installer itself.
   If Legato Storage Manager is installed
on the system, then remove it via
   the uninstaller executable that
is shipped with Legato.
   Start->Programs->Networker->Uninstall
Networker
   Caution: If Legato Storage Manager
was installed independently of
  
Oracle, DO NOT REMOVE LSM, because your system's backup
  
environment may be adversely affected.
   6.  Start the Event Viewer, Log->Application, and
clean up the
   application logs for Oracle.
   7.  Start the registry editor. This can be done via
regedit or
   regedt32.
   a)  If the Oracle Universal
Installer (OUI) was used, go to
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle
and write down the value of
   the INST_LOC
variable. This shows yo

RE: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-04 Thread Hillman, Alex



You 
wouldn't trigger long discussions  :-) if you mention that removal 
of services is done deleting these services from registry from 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and from 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSetxxx\Services
 
Alex 
Hillman

  -Original Message-From: Jyoti Randive 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:35 
  PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: 
  Removing Oracle products from NT
  
  You can try the Oracle universal Installer to unistall. 
  More rough way is to shutdown oracle db,listener, etc. , shutdown the 
  services, remove/disbale  the services.
  ..and then go to registry and remove everything under 
  (local_machine->software ->oracle)
  Then you can delete the whole Oracle home tree. The reinstall or whatever 
  you want to do!
  Believe me , sometimes windows Oracle is a pain,specially cleaing up for a 
  reinstall. But after all we are Unix guys! Just the beat the .. out  of 
  windows! 
  Hope I do not trigger another long discussion here! :-)
  HTH.
  Jyoti
  
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RE: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-04 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn



No not 
really, but you forgot several steps, the instructions below don't create a 
completely clean machine.

  -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jyoti RandiveSent: 
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  ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Removing Oracle products from 
  NT
  
  You can try the Oracle universal Installer to unistall. 
  More rough way is to shutdown oracle db,listener, etc. , shutdown the 
  services, remove/disbale  the services.
  ..and then go to registry and remove everything under 
  (local_machine->software ->oracle)
  Then you can delete the whole Oracle home tree. The reinstall or whatever 
  you want to do!
  Believe me , sometimes windows Oracle is a pain,specially cleaing up for a 
  reinstall. But after all we are Unix guys! Just the beat the .. out  of 
  windows! 
  Hope I do not trigger another long discussion here! :-)
  HTH.
  Jyoti
  
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Re: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-04 Thread Jyoti Randive

You can try the Oracle universal Installer to unistall. 
More rough way is to shutdown oracle db,listener, etc. , shutdown the services, remove/disbale  the services.
..and then go to registry and remove everything under (local_machine->software ->oracle)
Then you can delete the whole Oracle home tree. The reinstall or whatever you want to do!
Believe me , sometimes windows Oracle is a pain,specially cleaing up for a reinstall. But after all we are Unix guys! Just the beat the .. out  of windows! 
Hope I do not trigger another long discussion here! :-)
HTH.
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RESOLVED: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-03 Thread Diana_Duncan


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]


   
 
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Diana,

Get RedHat 7 CD-ROM
Insert into CD-ROM drive
Reboot and answer promts

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.






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Re: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-03 Thread Rodd Holman

Diana,

Get RedHat 7 CD-ROM
Insert into CD-ROM drive
Reboot and answer promts

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.

Start your reinstall.  I have found the best way to install the Oracle 
products is in order of installer version.  If you put the 
Designer/Developer stuff on first and then add the 8i stuff you should be 
able to get it to work.

Seriously if you want to stay away from Windows, Developer 6i is 
available for Linux (download from technet).  You need to have OpenMotif 
www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ loaded before running the installer.  The 
installer is text mode, but it looks for Motif libs during the install.

HTH
Rodd Holman

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 5/3/01, 2:16:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding 
Removing Oracle products from NT:


> Hey all,

> I know that this has been addressed on the list before, so if there's an
> archive yet (I've been away for a bit) just point me to it.  I made the
> terrible, heinous mistake of 1) installing Personal Oracle 8.1.6 on my
> laptop, which went well, then 2) installing Oracle Developer 6i on the 
same
> laptop.  I was unaware that Dev does not play with 8.1, as I have been
> fortunate enough not to deal with bloody GUI's for many years now.  Now,
> when I try to uninstall 6i, the installer crashes.  I can't uninstall the
> DB, because of registry variables that point to the wrong Oracle home, 
and
> when I try to manually change them, nothing works at all.  Can I just 
trash
> the directories, search for all registry variables and remove them?

> Or do I need to format the disk?  :)

> 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]

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RE: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-03 Thread Eric D. Pierce


 Doc ID:
 Note:74790.1
 Subject:
 Cleanly Deinstalling RDBMS
 Software from 95/98/NT
 Type:
 BULLETIN
 Status:
 PUBLISHED

   Content Type:
 TEXT/PLAIN
   Creation Date:
 08-OCT-1999
   Last Revision Date:
 05-SEP-2000
   Language:
 USAENG



 
 Cleanly Deinstalling Oracle RDBMS Software from Windows 95/98/NT Machines

 

 Purpose
 

 This bulletin explains how to remove Oracle software from a Windows 95, 98,
 or NT system.


 Scope & Application
 ---

 This bulletin assumes the reader has a thorough understanding of the
 operating system and the Windows registry.


 Related Documents
 -

 [NOTE:61621.1] Recreating Oracle7 / Oracle8 services and instances from
 the command line


 Introduction
 

 Removing or deinstalling Oracle software from an 95/98/NT operating system
 requires several steps to completely creating a 'clean' machine. This
 document explains what must be done to remove all Oracle software from the
 system.


 Warning
 ---

 1)  Backup
 Be careful, because these steps remove all Oracle software, Oracle services,
 and Oracle registry entries from the system.
 So it is advisable that you first perform a backup, if required, of
 certain files like:
SQL*Nnet configuration files
Database files
Self-written scripts

 that are stored under the oracle home directory, etc.

 2)  The following procedures require the editing of Windows registry, which is a
 potentially dangerous operation. There is no undo option in the Registry
 Editor.

Content
---

A. 32-bit on Windows NT
B. 32-bit on Win95/Win98
C. 16-bit

A. 32-bit on Windows NT
---
1.  Ensure that you are logged in as a user with Administrator privileges.

2.  Stop all Oracle-related services and all Oracle programs.

3.  Remove the database services via the oradim command. This can be
done via ORADIMXX -DELETE -SID  or via the 'SC' tool of the
resource kit.
For a full explanation on using the ORADIM command, see [NOTE:61621.1].

As from 8.1.6, the method for deinstalling is to first run Net8CA
in Deinstall mode, then run DBCA to delete a database, then run OUI
to deinstall the products.  At this point, all services should be
removed.

   4.  Start the ODBC administrator applet, if installed, and remove any
   Oracle DSN definitions.

   5.  Remove the Oracle software via the Oracle installer or the
   Universal Installer (8.1.5 and onwards). Make sure that all
   services related to Oracle are stopped first.
   Note that you cannot remove the installer itself.

   If Legato Storage Manager is installed on the system, then remove it via
   the uninstaller executable that is shipped with Legato.
   Start->Programs->Networker->Uninstall Networker

   Caution: If Legato Storage Manager was installed independently of
   Oracle, DO NOT REMOVE LSM, because your system's backup
   environment may be adversely affected.

   6.  Start the Event Viewer, Log->Application, and clean up the
   application logs for Oracle.

   7.  Start the registry editor. This can be done via regedit or
   regedt32.

   a)  If the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) was used, go to
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle and write down the value of
   the INST_LOC variable. This shows you where the OUI
   software is installed. This can then be used to remove the OUI
   from the machine afterwards.

   b)  Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software and remove the ORACLE key,
   look into the ODBC key for any 'leftovers' of Oracle. If they
   exist, then remove them as well.

   c)  Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and
   verify that all services that start with 'Oracle' are removed.
   If this is not the case, then remove the services starting with
  'Oracle' (database related) and the ones that start with
   'OraWeb' (Oracle Application Server related).
   No entries will not be removed from the services dialog box
   until you reboot.

   d)  Go to
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\
   Application and look for keys that start with 'Oracle'.
   No

RE: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-03 Thread Dasko, Dan

Trash the directories, kill the registry entries and you're golden.  I kill
Oracle on windoze all the time this way.

Dan

-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Hey all,

I know that this has been addressed on the list before, so if there's an
archive yet (I've been away for a bit) just point me to it.  I made the
terrible, heinous mistake of 1) installing Personal Oracle 8.1.6 on my
laptop, which went well, then 2) installing Oracle Developer 6i on the same
laptop.  I was unaware that Dev does not play with 8.1, as I have been
fortunate enough not to deal with bloody GUI's for many years now.  Now,
when I try to uninstall 6i, the installer crashes.  I can't uninstall the
DB, because of registry variables that point to the wrong Oracle home, and
when I try to manually change them, nothing works at all.  Can I just trash
the directories, search for all registry variables and remove them?

Or do I need to format the disk?  :)

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]

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RE: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-03 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn

Diana,
Actually 8i does work with Dev 6i, but you have to install Developer first
and into the default home then you create a new home for 8i and install it
there.  To remove Oracle from the machine you do not need to format the
drives, just shut down all services and delete the directories..All of the
directory's.  Then run regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-->SOFWARE and delete
the Oracle key, look for anything oracle in the ODBC key and delete it,
under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-->SYSTEM-->Current Control Set delete all oracle
and under SYSTEM-->Current Control-->eventlog-->application remove all
oracle.  You may also right click on MyComputer icon go to properties and
remove all oracle from the Path key, if Oracle is the only software in there
I usually just delete the path key all together.  This will give you a clean
machine. I believe there is actually a document for this on Metastink.
Kev



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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Hey all,

I know that this has been addressed on the list before, so if there's an
archive yet (I've been away for a bit) just point me to it.  I made the
terrible, heinous mistake of 1) installing Personal Oracle 8.1.6 on my
laptop, which went well, then 2) installing Oracle Developer 6i on the same
laptop.  I was unaware that Dev does not play with 8.1, as I have been
fortunate enough not to deal with bloody GUI's for many years now.  Now,
when I try to uninstall 6i, the installer crashes.  I can't uninstall the
DB, because of registry variables that point to the wrong Oracle home, and
when I try to manually change them, nothing works at all.  Can I just trash
the directories, search for all registry variables and remove them?

Or do I need to format the disk?  :)

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]

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Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-03 Thread Diana_Duncan

Hey all,

I know that this has been addressed on the list before, so if there's an
archive yet (I've been away for a bit) just point me to it.  I made the
terrible, heinous mistake of 1) installing Personal Oracle 8.1.6 on my
laptop, which went well, then 2) installing Oracle Developer 6i on the same
laptop.  I was unaware that Dev does not play with 8.1, as I have been
fortunate enough not to deal with bloody GUI's for many years now.  Now,
when I try to uninstall 6i, the installer crashes.  I can't uninstall the
DB, because of registry variables that point to the wrong Oracle home, and
when I try to manually change them, nothing works at all.  Can I just trash
the directories, search for all registry variables and remove them?

Or do I need to format the disk?  :)

Diana Duncan
TITAN Technology Partners
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Morrisville, NC  27560
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