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Ghuoargh schrieb:
> A few days ago I have downloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com and installed it 
> on my computer.
> However, since then some other programs did not function properly any 
> more and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this.
> Therefore I want to uninstall Cygwin.
> I read on the pages of cygwin.com, that in order to do this I need to 
> enter the command "umount" (several times) somewhere and uninstall by 
> this procedure all mount points which are listed when I enter "mount" 
> alone (this procedure is correct, or?).

Please read
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

mount points are just registry entries which do no harm to other 
programs and are deleted by step 6 of the FAQ entry.


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