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Question

I am trying to install Oracle Express 11g, after I download the zip file OracleXE112_Win64 - I unzip it, and open Disk 1 then setup. I go through the entire install

Answer 1

TLDR; Uninstall and re-install using admin account.

I encountered this error after installing Oracle Express 11g 64 bit using a standard account. After looking for a fix on various sites I realized that the issue was most likely caused by an incorrect setting. Different people suggested editing various files which I was not interested in doing. I found one person who claimed that the issue was a registry setting. Since I used a standard account to install I thought that maybe the registry setting could not be altered using a standard account. So I uninstalled and re-installed using an admin account and it just worked.