Remove Cygwin entirely from Windows 2000 Server SP3
Eric Hanchrow
offby1@blarg.net
Mon Mar 22 20:45:00 GMT 2004
>>>>> "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.
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