From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118406 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2017 13:58:16 -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 118364 invoked by uid 89); 28 Jul 2017 13:58:14 -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=H*r:ip*192.168.1.2, 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 13:58:12 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([79.66.0.6]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id b5mLdtD6QbjdZb5mLdGyeL; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:58:10 +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=eCmcs3ZY5Yu3LqJ9zPQA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 From: mike Subject: clean uninstall To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:43:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfODvbx/iQOmpCwJJwd2HK/79nT1FE/+Fr0aer8o16k76WD6h2PjChonyc16gF3A39lTKFz1pO5aGeZG95C4GzbTrs/9SBc/Jlpf626w0kfa8TFd+Te7d KCgJIPx+bXSvEA/rDmSLT+e02ERfkusfSL/LMp98SyuPj85RJ2MegX8d X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00408.txt.bz2 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. The reason that I want to do a clean re-install is because as per advice from the list I now want to do a selective install rather than installing whole Categories as I have before. Thanks very much in advance for any help. I would appreciate replies from multiple people to make sure that the advice I'm getting is generally agreed upon. Mike -- 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