Stephen, After changing the registry, you need to reboot the machine. The dll's have been loaded to memory because of the registry entries. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI [mailto:Stephen.Wolfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:11 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Net80 problem I have a client that I need to remove Net80 and add Oracle 8i to, the way I have done this in the past is to: 1. Delete Ora80 2. Remove Oracle references from the registry -- by hand. 3. Install Oracle 8i I stuck at step 1 (first time I have had this problem), there are a number of DLLs that won't delete from the BIN directory (under Net80) because they are supposedly 'in-use', I looked for a service to be running (found none) and then looked for a task ... Didn't see any. Any hints on what is using these DLLs (CORE80.DLL, for example). v/r //SIGNED// Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC Data Services Manager (813) 827-9972 DSN 651-9972=20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l