Richard Foulk wrote: > Anyone know how the control-panel->Add/Remove-Programs facility works? Not particularly cygwin specific, and comprehensively covered at Microsofts site. Anyway, here's some basic info. Each program needing an uninstall item has a key in: /HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall See http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709926.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247501 > Is this something that might be supported by existing cygwin tools? Personally, I'd leave installing/uninstalling of non-cygwin apps to windows. Can you imagine the queries coming to this list? - I couldn't uninstall notepad! - Executing random uninstaller broke my system! Why did cygwin allow that? Dave. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/