ODBC Administrator unable to remove ODBC driver !!!!

[lndoan]

I have Crystal Enterprise/Reports installed using Oracle ODBC v9.0.x and the Oracle Client. Everything ran fine until there was a problem with Crystal and Crystal has to be un-installed.

When Crystal is un-installed, in the ODBC Administrator, the datasource that was previously created was corrupted or no longer linked to the application and therefore, when trying to remove it, it gives an error message:

"The setup routing for the CR ODBC Driver 4.10 could not be found, please reinstall the driver" click ok then it say "Component is not found in the registry" and therefore, you cannot remove this driver from the list which causes a lot of confusion when using ODBC to connect to different datasource.

Please assist !!!

 

[ArtieChoke]

You'll need to go into the registry and delete the corrupted entries. Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI and delete the bogus entry.

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[lndoan]

Thanks ArtieChoke,

I went into the ODBC directory instead of the ODBCINST.INI and clear out the bogus entries but the changes did not take affect because I went back into the ODBC Administrator and the bogus entries were still there. I might have to restart the machine. Thanks

- Linda