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Re: Uninstall, cleanup, reinstall
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:09:03 -0800
- Subject: Re: Uninstall, cleanup, reinstall
- References: <1651713509.20060316222432@Menschel.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Robert Menschel wrote:
> Any ideas on how to completely remove cygwin so the machine can have
> it properly installed again?
You need to take ownership of the files if you can't delete them. This
is mentioned in the FAQ.
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>
Brian
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