Cygwin

[Rex A. Butcher]

What ho one and all,

I know that running reg cleaner software is somewhat frowned upon, but I do so every now and then, using my favourite program, JV 17 PowerTools. Whatever the pros and cons, it has never screwed up my computer.

However, every time I run it, it finds some remnants of Cygwin lurking somewhere. I deleted these but they always reappear. I have had a look around the hdd and cannot see the program; I have Googled and am at a loss as to what it actually does and since I cannot find it, how to remove it. There are a couple of references to cygwin1.dll relating to get i-player and Any Video Converter, but no reference to a program.

So what is it and why does it continue to, phoneix like, rise from the deleted ashes?

Toodle pip and thanks

Rex

[Train]

Using the Everything Search Engine
https://www.voidtools.com/
Searched for Cygwin
and found it as a part of LibreOffice. It is basically UNIX API that has been worked over so it will run Window, Linux and Mac.
I would leave it alone myself.