X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,LOCALPART_IN_SUBJECT,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Oleksandr Gavenko Subject: Re: Remove cygwin Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:03:11 +0300 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 18.10.2011 15:11, Casual Trash пишет: > > I have received a computer with some software already installed and I have to clean it up. > One of those software is cygwin, I tried to follow the instructions but without success. > > 1. I can't locate the cygrunsrv: there is no file with this name and there is no command in the bash shell with this name! > I have also checked the windows services but I can't find any of the mentioned services: sshd, cron, > cygserver, inetd, apache, > postgresql, etc To remove services that installed by cygrunsrv install it again: cmd# setup.exe -p cygrunsrv locate it and run shell prompt: cmd# cygrunsrv -L # to list installed services ... cmd# cygrunsrv -R sshd # to individually remove each installed service Next you can remove whole cygwin installation directory... That is. > 2. I can't delete the cygwin folder because I receive the "Permission Denied" error, although I have marked all the files as not read only and changed the ownership to my account. > > Can somebody help me out? > This can happen because some process have open handles to this directory. Try run procexp.exe Ctrl+F and type path to find and kill such processes... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple