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Install it to a directory, e.g., C:\Oracle\Ora81 .

At one point a DLL mismatch caused the installer to abort. Eddie scanned system event logs and discovered a conflict with a modern Visual C++ runtime. He isolated the client’s DLLs by placing them in the application’s directory and editing the application’s startup script to prefer local libraries. It was a brittle fix, but it kept the rest of the system intact.

In most cases, you do not actually need the 8.1.7 client to connect to an 8.1.7 database. Oracle clients often have "backward compatibility." Oracle 9i or 10g Clients: