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Re: Remove Cygwin entirely from Windows 2000 Server SP3
You have told me all I needed to know Corinna. Thanks.
George Hester
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"Corinna Vinschen" wrote in message 20040322165354.GA6469@cygbert.vinschen.de">news:20040322165354.GA6469@cygbert.vinschen.de...
> On Mar 22 08:39, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> > >>>>> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
> >
> > Corinna> There shouldn't be any cyg* files in the system folder.
> > Corinna> If you want to have it entirely clean, you'd have to
> > Corinna> delete all registry keys */Software/Cygnus
> > Corinna> Solutions/Cygwin with * being HKLM as well as all HKU
> > Corinna> subkeys of users which have used Cygwin.
> >
> > I've never had a problem with this, but: oughtn't he ensure that all
> > Cygwin services are stopped before he deletes c:\cygwin? If not, I
> > fear he'll get "access denied" errors when trying to delete the
> > relevant .exe and .dlls.
>
> Well, yes, but I thought I let this as an exercise for the reader...
>
> Corinna
>
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