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If You Have to Deinstall

4.1 Removing the Forms Developer Product

If at any time you need to back out or remove Forms Developer from your system, it is strongly recommended that you use the Oracle Installer for that deinstall task.

The Oracle Installer is specifically designed to both install and deinstall Oracle products. When deinstalling, it is important to remove all components and related items. The Oracle Installer will automatically do this for you.

If for some reason you are not able to use the Oracle Installer to do the de-install, then you need to be sure to also remove all the registry entries related to the services created during the installation of Forms Developer, and to remove ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE registry keys. (You can use the registry editor provided with Windows for this task.)

To remove Forms Developer from your system:

1. If you are running on NT, stop the NT services that were created during product installation as part of Service Side Include. In addition, if you have created any similar services yourself during installation, you must also stop those services.

2. Start the Oracle Installer from your Oracle product media or file system. See Chapter 2 for instructions on starting the Oracle Installer.

3. In the Installation Options dialog, select Custom Installation or Removal.

4. Select the product you want to remove from those listed in the Products Installed window.

5. Click Remove. If the products you select to deinstall affect other products, Oracle Developer displays a confirmation prompt before de-installing.

NOTE: If you are not using the standard Windows application to control your desktop (you are using Central Point PC Tools or Norton Desktop, for example), the Oracle Installer may not remove program items correctly.

If you are going to reinstall Forms Developer after the deinstall, you will first need to reboot the machine.