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To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Cedric Blancher via Cygwin Reply-To: Cedric Blancher Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "Cygwin" On Fri, 23 May 2025 at 19:42, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin wrote: > > On Fri, 23 May 2025 at 14:47, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > What is the official procedure to uninstall Cygwin properly? Just > > deleting C:\cygwin64 from Explorer yields lots of "malformed ACL > > warnings", and the registry still contains traces of Cygwin64 > > Uninstallation instructions are in the FAQ at > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > > The ACL warnings can be safely ignored if you're deleting the > directory anyway. The reason for them is covered in the documentation > at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files IMO an automated way in setup-x86_64.exe to uninstall a Cygwin installation in a given path would help a lot, e.g. setup-x86_64.exe --uninstalll The argument would help with multiple or per-user Cygwin installations Ced -- Cedric Blancher [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple