Remove an Old Version

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Installing and Configuring an Oracle Database on Windows

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Remove an Old Version

Before installing the new version of Oracle, you must remove the old one. The following procedure deinstalls the entire Oracle database.

1. Select Universal Installer from the menu path StartProgramsOracle - OraDb10g_home1Oracle Installation Products.
2. In the installer window click Deinstall Products. Make the appropriate selections in the dialog boxes.
3. In the installer window click Cancel.
4. Delete or remove the Oracle folder from the file system. This folder will be recreated when you install the new version of Oracle. You may encounter a permission problem when you attempt to do this. In one case the problem was that an Oracle DLL was still in use; a restart fixed this problem.