Friday, September 24, 2004

Uninstall Notes part 2

I didn't find an uninstallation guide in the Oracle documentation. Perhaps Oracle think that no-one would ever want to uninstall their venerable product for whatever reason. I followed the instructions from this site:

  • Uninstall all Oracle components using the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI).
  • Run regedit.exe and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE key. This contains registry entries for all Oracle products.
  • Delete any references to Oracle services left behind in the following part of the registry: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Ora*". It should be pretty obvious which ones relate to Oracle.
  • Reboot your machine.
  • Delete the C:\Oracle directory, or whatever directory is your ORACLE_BASE.
  • Delete the C:\Program Files\Oracle directory.
  • Empty the contents of your c:\temp directory.
  • Empty your recycle bin.

It seems quite reasonable and i would do it myself if i wouldn't find anything on the web.

1 comment:

jyosna said...

This information is very useful for me. I understood well from this.
Now i'm able to uninstall oracle 10g