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From: "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Remove Cygwin entirely from Windows 2000 Server SP3
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:33:36 -0500
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You have told me all I needed to know Corinna.  Thanks.


George Hester
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"Corinna Vinschen"  wrote in message news:20040322165354.GA6469@cygbert.vinschen.de...
> On Mar 22 08:39, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> > >>>>> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
> > 
> >     Corinna> There shouldn't be any cyg* files in the system folder.
> >     Corinna> If you want to have it entirely clean, you'd have to
> >     Corinna> delete all registry keys */Software/Cygnus
> >     Corinna> Solutions/Cygwin with * being HKLM as well as all HKU
> >     Corinna> subkeys of users which have used Cygwin.
> > 
> > I've never had a problem with this, but: oughtn't he ensure that all
> > Cygwin services are stopped before he deletes c:\cygwin?  If not, I
> > fear he'll get "access denied" errors when trying to delete the
> > relevant .exe and .dlls.
> 
> Well, yes, but I thought I let this as an exercise for the reader...
> 
> Corinna
> 
> -- 
> Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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> Red Hat, Inc.
>


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