I would uninstall again and this time go into the registry and under local machine \ software delete the oracle key. Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 >>> Luis.deUrioste@xxxxxxxxxx 4/23/04 9:20:22 AM >>> Paul, My guess is that the 3rd party software is looking for the default = oracle home, which is probably set to the first Oracle install in this = case would be the 9.2 install. First thing I would do is change the = default home to the 8.06 home and see what happens. Messing with the = registry entries can be messy. Luis -----Original Message----- From: Paul Vincent [mailto:Paul.Vincent@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:06 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Registry remnants after uninstalling 9.2 on W2K server OK, there's no excuse for such carelessness: The development team wanted = to revert a W2K server, which had Oracle 9.2 installed (but no databases = yet) to Oracle 8.0.6, in order to test a migration path. So I stopped = the Oracle services, ran the Oracle Installer and uninstalled 9.2, = removed the remnant directories, then rebooted the server. I then got = the install CD for Oracle 8.0.6 and installed it into its own Oracle = Home. =20 Fine - no problems. =20 Except that when the developers went to install their 3rd-party = application package, it threw up error messages which clearly showed it = was looking for files in the old Oracle 9.2 Home directories - which of = course no longer existed. =20 Clearly I screwed up by not realising (I realise now!) that there must = have been lingering Registry entries relating to Oracle 9.2, which I = should have identified and deleted before proceeding with my = installation of Oracle 8.0.6. =20 So my question is: is it a "safe" course of action to simply remove = those lingering 9.2 registry entries? If so, which entries should I = remove in order for the server to only regard itself as possessing a = single, 8.0.6, Oracle Home? (I've not been through this particular = process before, though I'm OK with making Registry edits in general). Or = is this too risky a procedure, and would I be better off uninstalling = 8.0.6, removing ALL Oracle registry entries (in which case, could = someone please give me a checklist of relevant entries?), and then = re-installing 8.0.6. As I mentioned, no database has been created yet, = simply Oracle software installed. =20 Definitely one of THOSE days... =20 Regards, =20 Paul Vincent Database Administrator University of Central England -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------