Deleting cygwin

[Brett Serkez]

> I am having a problem to remove the cygwin folder, it delete most files
> but mail in some!
> Looks like i dont have permitions to remove the folders :s
>
> I tryed to Chmod it, but it says that it cant change permission!
>
> So is there any other way to remove the folder and subfolders\files (
> other than format c: ;) )

I had similar issues at one time.  If you right click and go into the
properites for c:\cygwin you can 'take ownership' of all the files and
directories in the tree and then set protection so you have full
access (i.e. remove read-only...) to all files and directories in the
tree.

Brett

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