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RE: Deleting Problem
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:12:15 +0100
- Subject: RE: Deleting Problem
On 17 April 2006 08:10, Timo E Korhonen wrote:
> I have windows XP +SP2 in my amd athlon 3200 machine.
> I have installed Cygwin in my Computer.
> Noe I am trying to remove it totally.
> It will not success. Cygwin folder is saying Access Denied (probable
> some other prosess is using IT (folder cron>tabs and a small file (350 kb)
> I can change the names, but not remove.
> Ihave started PC in safetymode (only with necessary Microsoft processes)
> and still Access Denied.
> What is name of Microsoft Prosess, which Cygwin is using.
> Other words, how to remove the rest of cygwin files?
There is advice about how to uninstall cygwin at
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
Since you still found the problem in safe mode, I don't think there is a
process running that is holding the files open, because it shouldn't have
started in safe mode.
Instead, I think you have hit the permissions problem described in point 3
of the FAQ entry; please try using explorer to take ownership of the files as
described there, then try again to delete them.
cheers,
DaveK
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