How to Remove Existing Oracle Applications Environments From an NT Platform
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How to Remove Existing Oracle Applications Environments From an NT Platform
Below are the instructions to be performed in the order shown:
1. Stop all Oracle Services.
a. click on the Start button, then on Settings, and then on Control Panel.
b. double click on Services.
c. scroll down the Services window until the services that begin
with 'Oracle' are seen.
d. click on the service name in order to highlight it.
e. click on the Stop button.
f. wait until the Status of the service changes from Started to blank.
g. perform steps (d) through (f) until all 'Oracle' services
have been stopped.
h. exit the Services and Control Panel windows.
2. Delete the Oracle, Apache Group, and JavaSoft keys from the Register.
a. click on the Start button, then on Run.
b. enter 'regedit'
c. click on the OK button.
d. the Register Editor screen is displayed.
e. expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE by clicking on the '+' sign to the left of it.
f. expand Software.
g. scroll down until the Apache Group key is shown (may not be present in
certain OA releases).
h. right click on the Apache Group key name, and click on Delete.
i. click on the Yes button to answer the prompt: 'Are you sure you want
to delete this key ?'.
j. remove the JavaSoft key also the same way that the Apache Group key
was removed.
k. remove the Oracle key too the same way that the Apache Group and JavaSoft
keys were removed.
3. Delete Oracle service keys from the Register.
a. click on the Start button, then on Run.
b. enter 'regedit'
c. click on the OK button.
d. the Register Editor screen is displayed.
e. expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE by clicking on the '+' sign to the left of it.
f. expand System.
g. expand CurrentControlSet.
h. expand Services.
i. scroll down until the Oracle service keys are shown.
j. right click on the first Oracle service key shown, and click on Delete.
k. click on the Yes button to answer the prompt: 'Are you sure you want to
delete this key?'.
l. perform steps (e) and (f) until all 'Oracle' services have been deleted.
m. close the Register Editor window.
4. Remove Oracle Applications paths from the System and User PATH environment variables.
a. right click on the My Computer icon, and click on Properties.
the System Properties screen is displayed.
b. click on the Environment tab.
c. scroll through the System Variables zone, until the Path variable is shown.
d. click on the System 'Path' variable entry. The variable name 'Path' and
its value should be displayed at the bottom of the System Properties
screen.
e. click inside the 'Value' field at the bottom of the screen where the Path variable value
is shown.
f. with the Backspace key, or by highlighting and pressing on the Delete key,
remove the directory paths that refer to the existing Oracle Applications
environments. For example, references to %ORACLE_HOME%\bin, %AD_TOP%\bin,
%FND_TOP%\bin, %AU_TOP%\bin, etc. References to tools do not need to be
removed, such as directory paths to the MKS Toolkit, Visual C++, gnumake,
etc.
g. once such directory paths have been removed, click on the Set button.
h. scroll through the User Variables zone, until the 'Path' variable is shown.
i. click on the User Variable 'Path' variable entry. The variable name
'Path' and its value should be displayed at the bottom of the System
Properties screen.
j. perform steps (e) through (g) for the User Variable 'Path' variable.
k. once done, click on the Apply button, and then on the OK button.
l. The System Properties screen exits.
5. Remove Oracle Applications environment variables from the System and User environment.
a. right click on the My Computer icon, and click on Properties - the System
Properties screen is displayed.
b. click on the Environment tab.
c. scroll down looking for Oracle Applications specific variables such as
CLASSPATH, ORACLE_HOME, APPL_TOP, FND_TOP, etc.
d. click on one of these variable entries. The variable name and its value
should be displayed at the bottom of the System Properties screen.
e. double check that indeed this is an Oracle Applications environment
variable.
f. click on the Delete button.
g. the variable name and its value get removed from the bottom of the
screen and from the zone that it used to belong.
h. perform steps (c) through (h) until all Oracle Applications specific
environment variables are deleted from this zone.
i. move to the User Variables zone of the System Properties - Environment
screen.
j. perform steps (c) through (j) for the User Variables zone.
k. once done, click on the Apply button, and then on the OK button.
l. the System Properties screen exits.
6. Delete all OA ORACLE_HOMEs, APPL_TOPs, data files, etc.
a. click on the Start button, then on Programs, then on Windows NT Explorer.
b. expand the drive containing the top most folder under which OA related
files exist.
For example, in 11.5.1 and by default, this folder is named 'oracle'.
c. this top most folder contains the subfolders for the ORACLE_HOMEs,
APPL_TOPs, and/or data files. For example, the default names for these
subfolders in an OA 11.5. production installation are: prodappl,
prodcomn, proddata, and prodora.
d. right click on the top most folder, and holding the Shift key, click on
Delete. The deleted files will be placed in the Recycle bin if the Shift
key is not pressed down.
e. click on the Yes button to answer the prompt: 'Are you sure you want to
remove the '<top most folder name>' folder and all its contents?'.
f. wait until all files, including the top most folder, are deleted.
g. delete also the folder with the name of 'rapidinstall' if it exists under
this drive.
h. repeat steps (b) through (g) until all OA folders for all OA environments
have been deleted.
7. Remove the Oracle folder from Program Files.
a. click on the Start button, then on Programs, then on Windows NT Explorer.
b. expand the C: drive.
c. expand the Program Files folder.
d. right click on the 'Oracle' folder, and holding the Shift key, click on
Delete.
e. the deleted files will be placed in the Recycle bin if the Shift key is
not pressed down.
f. click on the Yes button to answer the prompt: 'Are you sure you want to
remove the 'Oracle' folder and all its contents?'.
g. wait until all files, including the 'Oracle' folder, are deleted.
8. Remove Oracle entries from Start Menu.
a. click on the Start button, then on Programs, then on the Windows NT
Explorer.
b. expand the C: drive.
c. expand the Winnt, Profiles, All Users, Start Menu, and finally the
Programs folders. The Start Menu programs created by the Oracle
Applications installation are shown, such as Oracle Forms, Oracle
Reports, Apache Web Server, Apache JServ, etc.
d. press the Shift key and right click on the first program listed which
was created by the OA installation.
e. with the Shift key pressed down, select the Delete option.
f. click on the Yes button to answer the prompt: 'Are you sure you want to
remove the folder <chosen program name> and all its contents ?'.
g. wait until the chosen program is deleted.
9. Reboot the system.
a. click on the Start button, then click on Shutdown.
b. select 'Restart the computer?'
c. click on the Yes button.
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