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Article #25272: Manually uninstalling InterBase Kits For Windows

Problem:
want to uninstall Windows InterBase manually

Solution:
To uninstall InterBase the following steps are required:
 
1A) Uninstall the service (only if local InterBase is being run as an NT service)
      a) instsvc stop (stop the service)
      b) instsvc remove (removes the service)

1B) Shut down the Server if being run as an Application
      a) Right click on InterBase icon in system tray and choose server shutdown

2) Delete the Registry entries
      [Automatically] -> instreg remove
      [Manually[ -> delete the whole InterBase key:
            HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareBorlandInterBase

3) Delete the gds32.dll from the system
      For local InterBase this library is located in the windowssystem directory (win95)
      or the winntsystem32 directory (NT)

4) Delete all shortcuts (if NOT running InterBase as an NT service
      a) If on NT 3.51 delete InterBase server icon from  startup groups
      b) if on win95 or NT 4.0 delete registry entry for Windows Startup of InterBase:
              HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun

5) Delete the local InterBase directory

Last Modified: 07-NOV-00