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On 04/07/2015 07:27, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I am happy to report that I found the culprit.  While installing
> another piece of software today, "Lavasoft Web Companion" came along
> as a stow-away.  Unfortunately, there is no easy way to remove this
> @#$%^& program, and I ended up corrupting my registry in the process.
> I was able to restore my C:\ (boot) partition from last night's backup
> and all is well now.
>
> NOTE TO SELF: when an installation program offers you advanced
> options, LOOK AT THEM!  In my case, there was an option to NOT install
> the extra unwanted software.

This is the second report of "Lavasoft Web Companion" causing the X 
server to fail to start due to failure to run xkbcomp, see [1].

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00195.html

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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