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RE: Cygwin/X and Vista and UAC


There might be a very destructive error in the uninstall instructions:

	3. Delete the Cygwin root folder and all subfolders. ....

The subfolders include /cygdrive/c/, etc.


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:00 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/X and Vista and UAC

On 02/16/2010 05:54 PM, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
> Okay, I agree we need better information.  So, I think I want to start again
> with a clean install. I understand that the procedure for removing cygwin is
> to just delete everything.  Does it create any registry entries that should
> be deleted?

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>

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