Thanks for your help - your solution worked! Indeed I had cygwin added to my user's path and not my system's path, and I was looking for it in the system's path.
Best, Tanya On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Tanya Sandoval <sandoval.tan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had to reinstall Cygwin and in doing so, I have ran into a > problem with some application because Cygwin seems to be appended to > my PATH environment variable. I have tried to remove this by following > these instructions https://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml but > something strange happens. If I look at the value of Path under > 'Environment Variables', Cygwin is not there; however if I type PATH > in cmd.exe, I see Cygwin gets appended at the end of the PATH. Can you > please help me to know to remove Cygwin from the PATH? > > As an example, this is what I see in the Environmental Variables > window Path value: > > Path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program > Files\Intel\iCLS > Client\;c:\Oracle\11g_R2_x64\Administrator\11.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;%systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program > Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files > (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program > Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files > (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine > Components\IPT;%systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Apps\Anaconda3;C:\Apps\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\Apps\Anaconda3\Library\bin > > And this is what I see in cdm.exe: > >>PATH > PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program > Files\Intel\iCLS Clien > t\;c:\Oracle\11g_R2_x64\Administrator\11.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\ > Java\javapath;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS > \System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C: > \Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program > Files > (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program > Files\Intel\Int > el(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files > (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Man agement Engine > Components\IPT;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\App > s\Anaconda3;C:\Apps\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\Apps\Anaconda3\Library\bin;C:\blp\DAPI; > C:\blp\DAPI\DDE;C:\Apps\cygwin64\bin > > As you can see, I have Cygwin in the second case, whereas I don't have > it on the first case. > > Many thanks for your help! > > Best, > Tanya -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
