On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM Mark Liam Brown 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
If the malformed ACLs bother you, reset ownership, permissions, and file attributes, then delete. Example cmd.exe script: takeown /f "<cygwinpath>" /r /d Y icacls "<cygwinwinpath>" /reset /t /c /q attrib -h -r -s "<cygwinpath>\*" /s rd /s "<cygwinpath>" If the leftover registry entries bother you, remove them. If you have added the Cygwin bin directory to the system Path, you'd need to remove that as well. I don't know about "official," but that would be how you would uninstall it. -- 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
