Steve Kelem wrote: > I'm doing fall cleaning, and came across the following registry entries. > > Which are required and which can be deleted? The ones that start with > an asterisk are the ones that I'm pretty sure are required. I don't > know about the rest. They may be left over from previous versions.
Stuff to do with current Cygwin. The * ones apply to all users, the others are per-user. > HKCU\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin > *HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions > *HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin > *HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin > HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options > HKU\S-1-...-1000\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin > HKU\S-1-...-1000\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 > HKU\S-1-...-1000\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options Stuff to do with very old versions of Cygwin. > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0 I think it should be fairly obvious what a key containing "Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu" does. > HKU\S-1-...-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrd\ Start > Menu\Programs\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin > HKU\S-1-...-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrd\ Start > Menu\Programs\Cygwin > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start > Menu\Programs\Cygnus Solutions > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start > Menu\Programs\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start > Menu\Programs\Cygwin Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
