Can't uninstall Oracle8i on NT,help!

I used universal installer to uninstall Oracle8i Database on NT.
But in the services, those oracle services (listener, etc) are
still there, even after I delete the entry in registry.
If I tried to install again, it fails because of the existing
service.
Who has the same problem as me, please share with me.

You have to go into the NT registry. No kidding. The universal
uninstaller doesn't really uninstall everything. I run Oracle on
Windows 2000 Professional, but I used to run it under NT4.0, so
to remove Oracle you must: "This is after you have run 'uninstall
from the CD or application"
1) backup registry
2) from start>run type regedit.
3) navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE
4) delete, in the registry, ORACLE
5) search registry for all occurances of 'ORACLE' > delete
I know it's really stupid, but MicroSoft doesn't really remove
Oracle from the system. You have to remove all from the
registry.
Good Luck
The first time I thought I'd remove Oracle from my machine, I
realized on the reload, the installer asked if I wanted to use
the same DB name again!
MicroSoft! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Mike Parish
Toronto, Canada

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