Wednesday, January 14th, 2009...1:07 pm

oui.exe has stopped working — Vista and Oracle client installation

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If you are trying to install Oracle client onto a Microsoft Vista computer, there is a possibility after executing the setup program and waiting for a few seconds you will get a pop-up window stating that oui.exe has stopped working. After a few more seconds of ‘trying’ to figure out what’s wrong, it stops — leaving you to click ok and wonder what happened.

Well, I ran across a random message (thanks oracle forum user user599812) that suggested that if you move your oracle setup folder closer to the root C:\ folder, you might solve your problem. I am here to say that we had this problem, and moving the folder to C:\ solved the problem.

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  • Ob
    January 19th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Thanks a lot… Your short article about this issue saved me tonnes of headache…..

  • BN
    February 11th, 2009 at 7:54 am

    I have same problem installing client on Windows 2008 sp1.
    The message you referred to on Oracle web, seems to be about Express Ed., but any way I moved the folder to c:\ but the problem doesn’t get solved.
    I even changed Data Execution Prevention setting, it doesn’t help too.
    plz help me.
    thanks.
    BN

  • PRP
    April 21st, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Moving the install folder to root of C: fixed the issue. I did enable the Data Execution Prevention setting to allow the install for all the exe’s in the install point.

  • DAPO
    May 5th, 2009 at 1:05 am

    thanks worked beautifully, immediately i followed your instructions

  • faithful software
    July 9th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Thanks for the great tip. This would have been hard to figure out. Its a bit late for Oracle to still be struggling with long path names… that was more of an issue for most of us 15-20 years ago.

  • chris
    July 13th, 2009 at 8:28 am

    worked, thanks

  • Danny
    July 22nd, 2009 at 10:05 am

    Thanks man…you were a real life saver :)!!Stupid problem though

  • Anup
    December 11th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Thanks. It works.

  • Mukhlis
    January 17th, 2010 at 11:44 pm

    In my case, i discovered that if the setup.exe directory path has spaces in it (eg. C:\oracle 10g installer), the oui.exe error would occur.

    If your remove the spaces, it should do the trick. (eg. C:\oracle_10g_installer)

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