you can try this: in your init.ora file, put nothing but the following in: SPFILE='path to your init.ora' On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Jiang, Lu <Lu.Jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > By default database auto starts with init pfile when reboot windows DB > machine. In order to make database autostart using spfile, I edited registry > key ORA_<SID>_PFILE from '...\init<SID>.ora' to '...\SPFILE<SID>.ora', but > database does not auto start when the service restarted or machine rebooted, > seems it does not take the binary file. > > > > Is there a way to make the database service use spfile to auto start > database on Windows environment? > > > > Thanks, > > Lu > > > > -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l