How to Uninstall

[sammy]

Recently I and my friend wanted to uninstall the Oracle 8 personal loaded in our system. But we got struck.Is there no option of uninstalling in Oracle 8 personal. If so how can we do this. Anyone give us idea on this.

[James Allen]

Hi, Do this careful

1. Uninstall all Oracle components using the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI).
2. Run regedit.exe and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE key. This contains registry entries for all Oracle products.
3. 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. and then Reboot your machine.
4. Delete the "C:\Oracle" directory, or whatever directory is your ORACLE_BASE.
5. Delete the "C:\Program Files\Oracle" directory. Empty the contents of your "c:\temp" directory.

[Adrian]

Why is the uninstalling process of orcale not a direct one and takes so many indirect steps.