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Oracle Windows Registry
Clean-up
Question: I have two Oracle homes, two sets of binaries, etc. I have asked
repeatedly for a set of clean rip out procedures for removing 734,
leaving 817 intact. I have been hesitant to follow the advice I've
been given because no one ever seems to address what my Oracle
registry key should look like (it's a mess of 734 and 817 entries).
Occasionally, I get weird errors that it turns out are caused by
734, although generally 817 works fine. Can you help me with this?
Answer:
Unfortunately once the mixing of the values occur this is difficult to
fix. In order to completely remove the 7.3.4 entries you may need to
remove the entire Oracle section.
In Windows, these are the registry entries.
See MetaLink notes 124353.1 and 208256.1 to clean the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ALL_HOMES\IDx
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_ora10g_Home1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_ora10g_Home2
Of course this means backing up your
Oracle database, then following notes 124353.1 or 208256.1 from
Metalink to clean the registry, re-installing Oracle (if required) and
restoring your database. I wish I had a better solution but to make
sure that the contamination from the old install is completely removed
I can think of no other safe, supported method.
Mike Ault |
