The chere package is currently the easiest and most common method to create a context menu item that opens a Cygwin terminal at a specific directory. When installing the package using the Cygwin installer, its size displays as 14KB:
However, after running the command needed to properly initiate and install the package:
chere -i -t mintty -s bash
…the package shows in IOBit Uninstaller as being 700MB, currently the largest program on my system:
That makes it bigger than all other programs on my PC, including fully-fledged software suites like Microsoft Office Professional and Firefox.
All the program seems to do is install 7 or so registry keys, each one containing minor variations on the following command:
C:cygwin64binmintty.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe "%V"
Therefore, this isn’t just a small discrepancy in size compared to the package’s function – it’s such a huge discrepancy in size that it must either be a severe bug or something malicious.
This issue isn’t unique to Windows 10, as I recall Windows 7 actually reported an installed size of more than 1GB for the same package.
To rule out a bug with IOBit Uninstaller itself, I also ran Revo Uninstaller, which reports the same 770MB size:
