Development Team: CLEANUP utility, please.

Question

In light of various [albeit minor but]frustrating problems, with multiple installs of various products, producing multiple instances of same services, with multiple copies of same software installed in various directories, with multiple ora's, net's, and HOMES, with different versions of software including jvm's, jre's, and Universal Installers, can you please come up with a CLEANUP WIZARD, call it Universal Verifier, that looks thru the entire system (post installations), including the registry, advises us, explains the benefits/requirements of various services, allows us choices, and gives us [the feeling of] CONTROL over the system. How can we control a corporate site, if we can't get a handle of what's goin' on in our own in-house system?
Please note that the length of the first sentence above is intentional. Sorry, but if you loose your thought process (process #6) thru it, you are not yet ready for 9iAS install. <g>
-Nat

Answer 1

Nathan,
Been there - Done that - 4-5 times now! In my case I had a new W2K Server install and did not have to be picky about what to delete.
So, here is what I did.;
After deleting all Oracle files and folders on the drive I then went into "regedit" and deleted the following from the registry;
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (delete all Oracle folders within)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE (delete the Oracle folder)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / SERVICES (delete all Oracle related services)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / ControlSet002 / SERVICES (delete all Oracle related services)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / ControlSet001 / SERVICES (delete all Oracle related services)
rebooted the machine AND WAH-LAH! Oracle was gone!
Then I started over with a new 9iAS install. (here we go again)
Bill G...