Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Proper Steps to Uninstall Oracle Database in Window XP

1 Go to START è Control Panel è Administrative Tools. Service stop all Oracle related services.


2 START è PROGRAMS è ORACLE è OraDb10g_home1 è Oracle Installation Products è Universal Installer. Uninstall all Oracle products, but Universal Installer itself can not be deleted.


3 START è RUN. Type regedit and then press enter, when window open choose HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ ORACLE and press the del key to delete the entry;


4 START è RUN. Type regedit and then press enter, when window open choose HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services, scroll through the list, remove all Oracle entrance.


5 START è RUN. Type regedit and then press enter, when window open, select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Eventlog \ Application, remove all Oracle entrance.


6 START è Control Panel è System è Advanced è Environment Variables. Delete the environment variable CLASSPATH and PATH settings relating to Oracle.


7 START è ALL PROGRAMS menu, delete all the Oracle of the group and icons.


8 Delete the C:\ Program Files \ Oracle directory.


9 Restart the computer after the restart to completely remove the Oracle directory.


10 Delete the Oracle-related files, select the default directory where Oracle C: \ Oracle, delete this entry directory and all subdirectories, and from the Windows XP directory (usually d: \ WINDOWS) Delete the following files ORACLE.INI , oradim73.INI, oradim80.INI, oraodbc.ini etc.


11 WIN.INI file if [ORACLE] section of the tag, delete the paragraph.


12 If necessary, remove all Oracle related ODBC-DSN;


13 To the event viewer, delete the Oracle-related logs. If you can not remove individual DLL files
the case, then it does not matter.

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