On 30 June 2006 10:23, f g wrote: > I would like to uninstall a Cygwin installation under > Windows XP: to do this I follow the instruction in
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > but I have several problems. > > Point 1) I type cygrunsrv -L at Cygwin prompt, but I > get the message > "bash: cygrunsrv: command not found". What does this > mean? Is it safe to assume that I have non Cygiwn > services running, and that I can pass to point 2? > Point 2) What is the X11 server? How do I know if > there are any Cygwin programs that might be running > in the background, and in case there are some, how do > I terminate them? > > If I complete these points, there should be no problem > with the following ones: basically, I just > delete Cygwin directory from the hard disk. I didn't > add Cygwin to system path, neither did I set > CYGWIN environment variable, so unless the installer > did it, I shouldn't need to do anything else. Nope, if you didn't do it, the installer would not have done either. And the same goes for cygwin services and X: if *you* didn't set it up, nor did anyone else. You should be able to just go right ahead. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
