No luck installing Oracle OLEDB 9.2 on WinXP

Question

I've bee heer with the same subject. Got an advice to uninstall Oracle OLEDB first and repeat installation. I've tried several times using full Oracle Client Installer as well as OLEDB version of Installer. Each time my list of OLEDB providers does not include Oracle OLEDB provider. I even updated my MDAC to 2.7 SP1 Refresh but results are the same.
Does anyone have a clue what should I do ?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Don,
If your %windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe works fine and your file system is NTFS, you may want to try the following. (Curtesy of Helena Bennett Kirksey in this forum. The instructions should be originally from Oracle.)
1. Log on to Windows as a user with Administration privileges.
2. Launch Windows Explorer from the Start Menu and navigate to the ORACLE_HOME folder. This is typically the "Ora92" folder under the "Oracle" folder (i.e. D:\Oracle\Ora92).
3. Right-click on the ORACLE_HOME folder and choose the "Properties" option from the drop down list. A "Properties" window should appear.
4. Click on the "Security" tab of the "Properties" window.
5. Click on the "Authenticated Users" item in the "Name" or "Group or user names" list.
6. Uncheck the "Read and Execute" box in the "Permissions" or "Permissions for Authenticated Users" list under the "Allow" column.
7. Re-check the "Read and Execute" box under the "Allow" column (this is the box you just unchecked).
8. Click the "Advanced" button and in the "Permission Entries" list make sure you see the "Authenticated Users" listed there with:
Permission = Read & Execute
Apply To = This folder, subfolders and files
Sinclair