Uninstall Cygwin

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Thu Aug 4 20:38:00 GMT 2005


Gansta93 wrote:

> If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do that? No icon in 
> Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know there are 
> values in the registry, but I don't know what values, so I cannot 
> delete thes values. Is there one or more command to uninstall Cygwin?
> Else, what can I do? Let it on my disk without using it because I 
> can't uninstall it so loose more 1 GO and a half?

Simply remove C:\Cygwin (if that's where you stored it). There are some 
registry entries that can be ignored or use RegEdit to seek and destroy 
entries with Cygnus in them.
-- 
Maybe some lonesome picker will find some healing in my songs. - John 
Stewart


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