Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:53:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Remove Cygwin entirely from Windows 2000 Server SP3 Message-ID: <20040322165354.GA6469@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040322084609 DOT GE17229 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <87ekrkomze DOT fsf AT offby1 DOT atm01 DOT sea DOT blarg DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ekrkomze.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 22 08:39, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >>>>> "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. Well, yes, but I thought I let this as an exercise for the reader... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/