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On 2011-10-18 14:11, Casual Trash wrote:
>
> 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
> 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?
>
>
> Thanks
>   		 	   		
>

I'm not sure it applies in your case, but sometimes (and this happened 
to me under Windows 7), when you have folders or files, or maybe a whole 
disk, that are from an older installation so to speak, it can be hard to 
remove such files. I had that happen to me when I took a disk from an 
another computer that wasn't formatted and had cygwin on it among other 
things. I could not delete the cygwin folder even though I was running 
as admin. I solved it by running two commands (and here the old cygwin 
folder I wanted to delete was located on e:\cygwin):
First, take ownership of all files (recursively):
$ takeown /F E:\cygwin /R

Then, change permissions recursively:
$ icacls E:\cygwin /grant Administrators:F /t

after that I could remove those files and folders from that secondary 
disk. Maybe it doesn't apply for you, I'm not sure about that, and use 
with care, but I hope it helps.

- EL


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