I am nearly 100% positive that Oracle has released a certified Windows 7 Oracle client within the last 2-3 weeks - it is an 11g client. Have you checked the Oracle Support page recently? ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:34 PM To: mhyder@xxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Client for Windows 7 On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mir M. Mirhashimali <mhyder@xxxxxxxx<mailto:mhyder@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: I installed the one meant for windows 2008 server and it works just fine. not sure if it is supported or not. Windows 7 is not yet supported. Manual installs work. Silent installs via response files do not.