On Fri, 23 May 2025 at 14:47, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin 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
Uninstallation instructions are in the FAQ at https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all The ACL warnings can be safely ignored if you're deleting the directory anyway. The reason for them is covered in the documentation at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files HTH! Adam -- 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
