On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 16:54, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > Am 15.04.2020 um 15:29 schrieb Paul Moore via Cygwin: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 11:54, Csaba Ráduly via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On my machine, I have a > >> > >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup > >> > >> key, which contains a string value named "rootdir" with the date > >> "C:\cygwin64". > > > > Thanks, that looks more useful. I didn't think to check there as I > > didn't recall having run the setup as "All users" so I assumed > > everything would be in HKCU. I should have checked! > > Paul > > -- > > > Pay attention that Setup links to the last updated one 64 or 32bit > > Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Setup > Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Cygwin\Setup > > Installations report all if more are installed (borderline case, maybe) > > Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations > Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Cygwin\Installations > > both version 32 and 64 bit are reported on > > Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygwin\Installations
Thanks. Can you explain what the \?? prefix on the Installations values is about? I'm nervous that there's something going on there that means that just ignoring the first 3 characters isn't sufficient... ;-) Paul -- 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
