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Uninstalling Oracle

I unwittingly downloaded and installed two instances of Oracle 11g r2 Enterprise Edition on my laptop. I also have 11g Express edition installed, as well as sqldeveloper and datamodeler. I want to uninstall all of it. But either I can't find them in programs under control panel or, if i can find them (via start - programs), then there is no option to uninstall. How do I uninstall them?

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Darius Ghassem

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Peter

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I tried solutions 1 and 3. I deleted the database in home_1. However, when I use the Universal Installer to deinstall, I get a dialog box that tells me to go to a deinstall executable file on my c drive. In the respective folder are three deinstall files with extensions .bat, .pl, and .xml. When I click the batch file, it goes to the command prompt which says: "Checking for required files and Bootstrapping..." Then, a few seconds later a screen pops up that says some files were copied. But then screen goes out almost immediately. I wait a few minutes and nothing happens.

Darius Ghassem

You need to go to command prompt from there you can drag the bat file to the command window you can see the progress there

Peter

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dariusg, that's a neat little trick but still having problems. See attached file.
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slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

Do you have some Oracle products and a database you want to preserve?

Darius Ghassem

You can just delete the folders as well

slightwv (䄆 Netminder)

>>You can just delete the folders as well

This is the manual uninstall I mentioned earlier. This by itself isn't good enough becuase of the Inventory file. Oracle will still think it is installed.

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Peter

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I didn't accept my own comment as the solution.