Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eric Hanchrow Subject: Re: Remove Cygwin entirely from Windows 2000 Server SP3 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:39:01 -0800 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <87ekrkomze.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <20040322084609.GE17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) >>>>> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen writes: Corinna> There shouldn't be any cyg* files in the system folder. Corinna> If you want to have it entirely clean, you'd have to Corinna> delete all registry keys */Software/Cygnus Corinna> Solutions/Cygwin with * being HKLM as well as all HKU Corinna> subkeys of users which have used Cygwin. I've never had a problem with this, but: oughtn't he ensure that all Cygwin services are stopped before he deletes c:\cygwin? If not, I fear he'll get "access denied" errors when trying to delete the relevant .exe and .dlls. -- Tobacco: It's not just for killing children anymore. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/