My windows knowledge is slowly rusting away :) Services are in broad terms the equivalent of daemons (or indeed systemd services), their configuration is stored in the windows registry. The oradim utility is just a registry editor for oracle services, albeit a nice command line one :). That *ought* to be enough to get you going. If you want to dive into the internals I suggest http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963901.aspx makes an excellent investment. I see from Amazon that there's a new version coming out this autumn. On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31 PM, August Spier <gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I hate to admit, but I don't understand services and how oradim works. Is > there a tutorial somewhere I can switch? > > Gus Spier > Gus.Spier@xxxxxxxxx > > 540 454 3074 > > > >> > >> -- Understand services and how oradim works. > >> > >> Seth Miller > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info