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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:00:07 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: Uninstalling cygwin
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Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
> * luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au (2004-06-23 01:56 +0200)
> 
>>A colleague at work is having some problems that are starting to look
>>as though they're due to a permission problem.
>>
>>I note that the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html says that Cygwin has
>>no automatic uninstall facility.  Since setup lets you choose to
>>uninstall, is that an error in the FAQ, or have I misunderstood setup's
>>uninstall option?
> 
> 
> No, you misunderstood the FAQ. With setup.exe you can uninstall
> individual packages but not Cygwin. To uninstall Cygwin you have to:

first kill all running cygwin programs and services.

   killall script in distro and automatic detection of cygwin services
   still pending.
   use e.g. pskill or procexp from www.sysinternals.com
   and net stop <service_name> or cygrunsrv --remove <service_name>

> rmdir /s /q C:\cygwin

login as Administrator to remove pending files and directories for which 
you have no permissions.

> regdit -s rmcygwin.reg
> 
> [rmcygwin.reg]
> REGEDIT4
> 
> [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions]
> [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions]
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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