Re: Uninstalling cygwin

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
> * luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au (2004-06-23 01:56 +0200)
>
> > A colleague at work is having some problems that are starting to look
> > as though they're due to a permission problem.
> >
> > I note that the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html says that Cygwin has
> > no automatic uninstall facility.  Since setup lets you choose to
> > uninstall, is that an error in the FAQ, or have I misunderstood setup's
> > uninstall option?
>
>
> No, you misunderstood the FAQ. With setup.exe you can uninstall
> individual packages but not Cygwin. To uninstall Cygwin you have to:

first kill all running cygwin programs and services.

  killall script in distro and automatic detection of cygwin services
  still pending.
  use e.g. pskill or procexp from www.sysinternals.com
  and net stop <service_name> or cygrunsrv --remove <service_name>

> rmdir /s /q C:\cygwin

login as Administrator to remove pending files and directories for which 
you have no permissions.

> regdit -s rmcygwin.reg
>
> [rmcygwin.reg]
> REGEDIT4
>
> [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions]
> [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions]
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Reini Urban
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