Re: Uninstall cygwin for Windows under Windows XP

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Skip,

I am feeling polite, so I will hold your hand on this one a little bit.

All Cygwin files are installed in the directory that you chose when you 
ran setup.exe.  One easy way to get rid of Cygwin is to delete this 
folder (usually c:\cygwin).  However, that will leave the icons and such 
in place for Cygwin in the Start Menu and on the desktop.  There will 
also be a few registry keys that will have no adverse effect on your 
system if you leave them in place.

Alternatively, the Cygwin setup.exe program may have an ``uninstall'' 
option that does remove the icons, etc.  However, I would not know for 
sure because I never uninstall Cygwin.

Harold

Skip Knoble wrote:

> 	How does one remove all installed CYGWIN files after and
> install under Windows XP?
> 				Many thanks.
> 				Skip Knoble, Penn State Center for Academic Computing
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