# Toad can not find the Oracle Home?

**URL:** <https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-can-not-find-the-oracle-home/30274>\
**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [June 27, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-can-not-find-the-oracle-home/30274 "2014-06-27T10:25:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![m\_holman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@m\_holman](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/m_holman)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-can-not-find-the-oracle-home/30274/1 "2014-06-27T10:25:10Z")

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For some reason, I was not able to download the Oracle Client along with my Toad download. So instead I installed Oracle Client on my pc as a separate download. Toad will not allow me to browse to that Oracle home.

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**Author:** ![Bert\_Scalzo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/bert_scalzo/32/274_2.png) [@Bert\_Scalzo](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Bert_Scalzo)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-can-not-find-the-oracle-home/30274/2 "2014-06-27T10:47:27Z")

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We do not package the Oracle client into our installer bundle - we just provide links for you to go get it. Licensing issues - you must pay for most Oracle clients that most people prefer to use - so better to stay clear of that by just providing links.

Once you install Oracle client - if it’s fat/full client installer which creates windows registry entires then toad would see it. If you just downloaded the instant client which is just a tiny zip file to unzip - read the Oracle instant client install instructions. You must create a windows env var called TNS\_ADMIN and you must include the dir where you unzip in your PATh env var. Oracle spells all this out in the readme and install instructions - and I’ve blogged about it on toad world a couple times to boot.