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Re: Uninstalling cygwin
Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
* luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.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]
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