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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: Can't delete old install of cygwin
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:28:02 +0100
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On 24 July 2006 07:43, shocker-z wrote:

> Hi there i had Cygwin installed about about a year ago and have it installed
> on my second partition but i have recovered the computer's main partition
> since and now i get access denied when trying to delete the bin folder. I've
> tryed command line deletion as well as thru explorer but now joy.

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

  See particularly point 3.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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