No Oracle Home Selector in 10g?

I finished installing 10.1.0.2 DB on Win XP Professional a short while ago. This machine already had 8.1.7 client, 9.0.1 client, and 9.2.0 db installed.
I went to Oracle Home Selector under Oracle Installation Products on my start menu and saw only previous ORACLE_HOMEs are available.
I checked my PATH from a command prompt and find the new 10g ORACLE_HOME/bin is first in my PATH. That's fine, for now but when I want to change it I'll have to change it manually. Ok, I can do that. It's annoying but workable. But I can't expect the "normal" end user to deal with this. What's up Oracle?

Here is a fix ... I don't think its recommended !
1. run regedit
2. Find ORACLE - ALL HOMES (Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE)
There will be ID0 and ID1 etc ., (If you have previous version of Oracle).
3. Keep your mouse on ALL HOMES -> Right click -> New -> Key
Name it ID2 or ID3 (depends on how many Oracle Homes you have)
4. Now you have ID2 or ID3 ready ...
Keep your mouse on ID2 or ID3 -> Right Click -> String Value
Enter NAME ... string your actual OraHome92 or OraHome10g
Another String value -> Enter NLS_LANG and set the value
another String value -> Enter PATH and set the exact path
Go to your Oracle Home Selector ... you will find the new Oracle Home with its path !
Thanks
Vaithianathan. S

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