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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: clean uninstall
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bffa2ca8-f6e0-f2ac-a02e-46ac45239314@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7dcc7da-a2fd-7559-e2dc-826519b584ec@onetel.com>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-28 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-28 18:43 mike
2017-07-28 19:52 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2017-07-28 19:58   ` mike
2017-07-30 22:12     ` mike

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