HOW TO SOLVE COMPATIBILITY MISTAKES DURING INSTALLATION ORACLE CLIENT 10G IN WINDOWS 7 MACHINE

To solve the compatibility mistake during installation of oracle client 10g in windows 7 machines

1.- you must add the following lines to all ...\stage\...\refhost.xml


  <CERTIFIED_SYSTEMS>
    <OPERATING_SYSTEM>
    <!--Microsoft Windows 2000-->
      <VERSION VALUE="5.0"/>
      <SERVICE_PACK VALUE="1"/>
    </OPERATING_SYSTEM>
    <OPERATING_SYSTEM>
    <!--Microsoft Windows XP-->
      <VERSION VALUE="5.1"/>
      <SERVICE_PACK VALUE="1"/>
    </OPERATING_SYSTEM>
    <OPERATING_SYSTEM>
    <!--Microsoft Windows 2003-->
      <VERSION VALUE="5.2"/>
    </OPERATING_SYSTEM>
    <!--Microsoft Windows Vista-->
    <OPERATING_SYSTEM>
      <VERSION VALUE="6.0"/>
    </OPERATING_SYSTEM>
    <!--Microsoft Windows 7-->
    <OPERATING_SYSTEM>
      <VERSION VALUE="6.1"/>
    </OPERATING_SYSTEM>
  </CERTIFIED_SYSTEMS>

2.- but we must add 6.1 also in the file install/oraparam.ini

[Certified Versions]
#You can customise error message shown for failure, provide value for CERTIFIED_VERSION_FAILURE_MESSAGE
Windows=5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0,6.1

Then you can install oracle client now without compatibility mistakes