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From: "Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Uninstall Cygwin
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:21:06 -0400
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>> If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do that? No icon in
>> Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know there are values 
>> in the registry, but I don't know what values, so I cannot delete thes 
>> values. Is there one or more command to uninstall Cygwin?
>> Else, what can I do? Let it on my disk without using it because I can't 
>> uninstall it so loose more 1 GO and a half?
>
> Simply remove C:\Cygwin (if that's where you stored it). There are some 
> registry entries that can be ignored or use RegEdit to seek and destroy 
> entries with Cygnus in them.

Or better than that would be to use setup.exe to uninstall. Then delete 
C:\cygwin 



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