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From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Uninstall, cleanup, reinstall
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Robert Menschel wrote:

> Any ideas on how to completely remove cygwin so the machine can have
> it properly installed again?

You need to take ownership of the files if you can't delete them.  This
is mentioned in the FAQ. 
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>

Brian

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