On Fri, 23 May 2025 at 19:42, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> 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 <path> The <path> argument would help with multiple or per-user Cygwin installations Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> [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
