Guest basis_consultant@hotmail.com Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Hi, This is one of the strangest things that I have seen in years..... We have an SAP/Oracle system running on Win2003/SP2 (Xeon CPU). (For those interested, it is SAP R3 v47 running on Oracle 9i). There were about 10 or so SAP related registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - SAP - (SAP System ID) - Environment A few days ago, I stopped SAP and Oracle to make a config change. Oracle started well, but SAP had various difficulties starting. To my amazement, virtually all of the registry entries in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - SAP - (SAP System ID)- Environment" were missing. I fixed SAP's startup issues by adding the necessary entries to the registry and/or env. variables. We have Norton scanning daily. It did not display any recent problems. The event log also displayed nothing of significance. What could have caused these registry entries to disappear, or appear to disappear ? (Perhaps some were not registry entries, but env. variables, but most were registry entries). It does not seem like a virus, or something similar, because Windows, Oracle, etc.. were fine. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, DF
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