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Re: A request?


Rick Kane wrote:
> Turning the topic in another direction (I hope).  What I've been trying to
> do is figure out how to totally remove cygwin from a machine before I do
> another install.  This suggests tha I could delete the cygwin directory
and
> the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions from the registry.  Is
> there anything else?

See also HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions

> Where are all the places setup.exe looks to decide
> what is already installed (and what version)?  I'd like to delete those
> files too.

Within the cygwin directory. (/etc/setup to be precise).


Max.


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