Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain "not installed - ever" on many people's systems, including mine.
IMO, a windows system with Cygwin and Cygwin tools isn't really a Windows system anymore; it is an crippled and ugly hybrid.
Cygwin rocks. No Windows functionalities are lost by installing Cygwin. Cygwin has the SAME uninstall that Windows does: install CentOS. *THAT* unfortunately, loses many widely used Windows capabilities, like support for most video games. *THAT* is the reason I still have Windows at all!
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