From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 84981 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2017 14:13:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 84960 invoked by uid 89); 28 Jul 2017 14:13:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=lightning, brand, documents X-HELO: smtp-out-6.talktalk.net Received: from smtp-out-6.talktalk.net (HELO smtp-out-6.talktalk.net) (62.24.135.70) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:13:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([79.66.0.6]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id b60ldtFIlbjdZb60ldGziZ; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:13:04 +0100 X-Spam: 0 X-OAuthority: v=2.2 cv=ONFX5WSB c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=IUz/5zGOwx1AJbwgoa8h8g==:117 a=IUz/5zGOwx1AJbwgoa8h8g==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=WNVikqVOnZNc-IVsqYgA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=daI9ojH3vpgA:10 a=buB1NfXUTBUA:10 a=IfQ-iFkkCvMA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Subject: Re: clean uninstall To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: mike Message-ID: <96ad6413-4cdb-4bba-0731-b732e0d72f08@onetel.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:58:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfFBALHkdwk3yFVbHD1tUOWpmvDR14WI8oRk989L4BhRcaKLV7hQRsvcmxSf2I+8gM4wMp65vKVosTG9UNU1SRbxGEvsg8iOOfhBK1xJ58WDd7lrqmS7O y4I75jnkuUnwJVW+HciWuPaaCOMd6S4fz9l04W1jiqxR9Lz+v57MQVtj X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00410.txt.bz2 On 28/07/2017 15:06, Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/28/2017 9:58 AM, mike wrote: >> Hello >> >> I have deleted all but var and dev from my C:\cygwin folder (which >> was quite painful and time-consuming BTW) and then moved the cygwin >> folder to my Documents folder and then deleted a Cygwin desktop icon >> and two Cygwin folders from my Start > All Programs menu. Is that >> sufficient to give me a clean uninstall so that I can do a brand new >> Cygwin install without problems? I did it that way because I >> couldn't figure out any other way of uninstalling Cygwin. > > https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > > Ken > Thank you Ken for your lightning fast reply. I did google for the answer but couldn't narrow it down to what I was looking for. I am sure that that is the definitive answer. Thank you very much. I will do it. > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- I *AM* a unique and special snowflake -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple