Setup has no automatic uninstall facility. The recommended method to remove all of Cygwin is as follows: If you have any Cygwin services running, remove by repeating the instructions in http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-service for all services that you installed. Common services that might have been installed are sshd, cron, cygserver, inetd, apache, postgresql, and so on.

Cygwin tools are, in the words of the Cygwin homepage, "ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT. They function by using the Cygwin library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API." Cygwin provides the compiler (gcc), libraries, headers, and other utilities which build and support the operation of Cygwin/X.

List all services you have installed with cygrunsrv -L. If you do not have cygrunsrv installed, skip this FAQ. Before removing the service, you should stop it with cygrunsrv --stop service_name. If you have inetd configured to run as a standalone service, it will not show up in the list, but cygrunsrv --stop inetd will work to stop it as well.

Click the item "Add/Remove Programs", then select "CD to MP3 Ripper" from the list and click the "Remove" button to uninstall it.

For those who would like to use the Cygwin environment for development, yet generate non-Cygwin-dependant executables, a much easier option to "-mno-cygwin" does exist. Simply install Cygwin and the MinGW distribution in seperate directories (i.e. "C:\CYGWIN" and "C:\MINGW"), and make sure that the "/bin" subdirectory beneath your MinGW installation comes before Cygwin's "/bin" subdirectory in your PATH environment variable (i.e. "PATH=%PATH%;C:\MINGW\BIN;C:\CYGWIN\BIN").

Yes, Cygwin/X has a mailing list, namely, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com. Visit the Cygwin Mailing Lists page to subscribe to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com as well as to read and search an online archive of the mailing list traffic. Tip: Post your X-related inquires to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com only; do not post nor cross post your inquires to the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list. Cygwin's mailing list is only for Cygwin related inquires that are not handled by another more-specific list.

The Cygwin/X User's Guide thoroughly documents the installation process. Installation is performed through Cygwin's setup.exe program.

Only submit patches that have UNIX end of line characters. See Q: 10.2. for information on editors for Windows that are aware of UNIX end of line characters. Generally it is better for us if you generate your patches against the X.org CVS tree. For example, run cvs -z4 diff -U3 hw/xwin/ from xc/programs/Xserver/ to generate a diff file for all the modified files in hw/xwin/.

See SGML for Windows NT: Setting up a free SGML editing and publishing system on Windows NT/Cygwin by Markus Hoenicka.

I just installed WinCue v1.40 and it's using 30%-60% of my CPU! This sucks, version 1.35 was much cooler.

If you have installed the RPM version of Webmin, you can also use rpm -e webmin, or if you have installed the Solaris package you can use pkgrm WSwebmin .

Go to TextExpander's preference pane in System Preferences and uncheck "Enable TextExpander" in the Preferences tab. Control-click on the TextExpander icon and select "Remove TextExpander Preference Pane" from the resulting contextual menu. Store | Support | Press | Blog | Contact | info@smileonmymac.com

Note that if you simply want to disable the plug-in for a while, you can do this by unticking the "Enable SpamBayes" box on the front page of the "Manager" dialog. If you installed the plug-in from source, then you simply need to re-run the "addin.py" script, with the parameter "--unregister", and then delete the toolbar in Outlook.

We hope you love Picasa Web Albums Exporter for iPhoto, but we won't be mad if you want to uninstall it. Here's how: Find the section of the Info window labeled Plug-ins. If necessary, click the little triangle for Plug-ins to see the list of items in that section. Scroll through the list until you find PicasaWebAlbums.iPhotoExporter. Click that entry to select it.

Cygwin/X supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 as of 2003-12-29. Cygwin/X requires Cygwin to compile and run. Cygwin is not, as of 2003-12-29, available on Microsoft Windows CE, therefore Cygwin/X is not currently available on Microsoft Windows CE.

Zone Alarm 5 is known to break Cygwin/X. As a result you'll see this line (or a similar) as last output in /tmp/XWin.log Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Disabling Zone Alarm will not solve this problem. You can only uninstall Zone Alarm 5 and switch to an earlier version (4.5 is known to work) or use a different personal firewall. Another reason is /tmp mounted in textmode.

Most likely you have installed some kind of personal firewall, VPN software or any other software that modifies the TCP/IP stack of Windows. Especially Webwasher and some other filtering software are known to slow down the network traffic. Some online virus scanners like Symantec Antivirus do slowdown Cygwin/X a lot. They scan every file access and network traffic which causes serious processing overhead beyond that from the X11 protocol and the unix emulation layer. Dr.