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: "Joe Smith" Subject: Re: Uninstall Cygwin Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:21:06 -0400 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <004d01c5992a$00e7e200$0303a8c0@wanadoo.adsl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes >> 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 -- 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/