SOLUTION : Installation error 1325 Templates is not a valid short name for Oracle XE
- From: "Norman Dunbar" <norman.dunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:08:49 +0000
Morning all,
some time back I posted about a problem I was having installing Oracle
XE on a Windows box. I got no replies :o(. I got as far as extracting
the MSI file and then it all blew up with an "Error 1325 Templates is
not a valid short name" message box displayed. After that, the
installation aborts.
I have now had the same problem with another install so I went hunting
and found the solution. I suspect this will work for other problems of
this kind as it is not (just) Oracle XE related.
PROBLEM :
The registry entry for
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\UserShellFolders\Templates
was defined as %USERPROFILE%\Templates with a type of REG_SZ.
Unfortunately, because of the %USERPROFILE% part, it should have been a
REG_EXPAND_SZ to get the expansion of the environment variable.
SOLUTION 1 :
Using REGEDT32 (Regedit doesn't allow the type to be specifically
chosen) navigate to the above location and note down the Template
setting. Delete the Template value. (Edit->Delete when Templates is
highlighted.)
Now Edit->Add Value.
Enter Templates as the name.
Choose a Type of REG_EXPAND_SZ
Click OK.
Type in the value you noted down earlier, probably
%USERPROFILE%\Templates
Click OK.
Check it and exit from the regedt32 app.
Now, double click on the OracleXE.exe file to install it. You do not
need to be an administrator to do this.
If you try to install XE while logged in as the administrator user, you
will have to redo all of the above because you only changed it for your
own login.
Trying to Shift+Right-Click and Run as to install as an administrator
will continue to give you the same error that I originally reported.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION 2 :
I suspect - but have not tested - that another method of changing the
original (wrong) registry entry is simply to change the %USERPROFILE%
part of the REG_SZ entry to the fully expanded path to something like
c:\documents and settings\username\.
Cheers,
Norman.
Norman Dunbar.
Contract Oracle DBA.
Rivers House, Leeds.
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