Re: cygwin1.dll conflict

[Dave <kilroyd at googlemail dot com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 07 July 2006 01:32, Dale King wrote:
> > I'm supposedly having a problem with an old version of cygwin1.dll,
> > but I find no old version.
> >
> > And when I run cygwin setup it tell me that I have an old version of
> > cygwin1.dll in c:\windows\system32, but it fails when it tries to
> > delete it. But there is no cygwin1.dll there or anywhere else on my
> > system except in c:\cygwin\bin. I even deleted that one and
> > reinstalled and still have the same problem.
> >
> > I have attached the output of cygcheck.
>
>
> ...which says...
>
> "Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path"
>
> ...and lists....
>
>   602k 2005/06/26 C:\WINDOWS\system32\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/5/25 19:38
>
>  1831k 2006/07/01 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2006/7/1 2:22
>
>   You must need more coffee!  

It's possible that somebody (or some installer) has marked the 
cygwin1.dll in system32 as system and/or hidden. This may explain why it 
doesn't appear in explorer or a DOS directory listing.

Explorer has an option which will show hidden and system files: set that 
and you ought to be able to find it.

Dave.

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