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Uninstalling Dr. Mingw

Posted by Jonathan Anderson on February 11, 2014 at 11:45am

Hey guys,

I accidentally installed Dr. Mingw while installing the ArduPilot Mission Planner 2.0. Do you guys know how to uninstall Dr. Mingw?

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Marc-André Noiseux April 28, 2018 at 6:28pm

This drmingw is really a bad thing. Just to make you know , I had a bitlocker attack that used this to lock all my multimedia files last year. This time I re-installed it by error ... still another virus used it. This thing has NO protection and opens a lot of doors to virusses .
Jonathan Anderson February 11, 2014 at 9:10pm
Found how to uninstall it.
1. Download Dr. Mingw from https://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/DrMingw. I believe the 32-bit version is installed with ArduPilot Mission Planner 2.0.
2. Extract the files.
3. Open up the Windows command prompt in administrator mode.
4. Navigate to where the files are and run "drmingw -u".
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  Sgt Ric > Jonathan Anderson February 14, 2014 at 10:07am
  
  Thanx for the heads-up...
  - Michael Carpenter > Sgt Ric February 20, 2014 at 7:08am
    
    Whups, seems the installer does not remove it when it uninstalls. This will be fixed promptly, sorry about the inconvenience.
    
    I will also add a notice to the installer, so if you enable the installation of drmingw (which defaults to not install) it warns you
    
    Edit: Seems uninstalling AP2 also uninstalls DrMingw, are you seeing something different?
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Sgt Ric February 11, 2014 at 12:05pm

Accidentally?
Most people do not have these tools just laying around.
- Jonathan Anderson > Sgt Ric February 11, 2014 at 12:46pm
  
  Haha, true. But the APM Mission Planner 2.0 installer has an option to include it in the installation.