completely uninstall cygwin

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Sep 29 23:35:00 GMT 2009


On 09/29/2009 07:25 PM, David M. Besonen wrote:
> On 9/29/2009 1:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
>> On 09/29/2009 04:15 PM, David M. Besonen wrote:
>>
>>> how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i
>>> re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that
>>> cygwin was ever installed?
>>
>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>.
>
> thanks.
>
> i looked and did not notice any uninstall information in the
> 1.7 FAQ.  is the recommended 1.7 uninstall procedure the same
> as 1.5?

<http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>

Mostly.  A little less fuss since there's nothing of great import in the
registry...


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