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From: "Baksik, Frederick (NM75)" <frederick DOT baksik AT honeywell DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Uninstall Cygwin
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:38:02 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Uninstall Cygwin
> 
> 
> >> 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 

I'd hate to see the logic that would try to figure out which registry keys
need to be deleted considering that 3rd party apps using their own licensed
version of cygwin will use the Cygnus Solutions name.  I've been lucky
enough with such apps that they don't use C:\cygwin, so I can install cygwin
myself without conflicting with their cygwin DLL.

--
Frodak

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