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Re: Did anyone download the Windows 7 beta?
- From: "S. Cowles" <scowles at ckhb dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:24:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Did anyone download the Windows 7 beta?
in january there was discussion about the windows 7 beta and how cygwin
was performing on it. i'm late to the party on this issue and did not
have the same experience related by the early adopters at that time.
i'm currently running win7 as a vmware guest with 2 cpus and 1G memory on
a quad cpu ubuntu host. in order to install services, i had to turn off
win7 UAC entirely. i tried each of the top two settings for UAC and
neither allowed any changes to files or directories (after a full download
using setup). i could not change permissions on c:\cygwin or
c:\cygwin\home, for instance, from either properties dialogs or from
within a bash shell session using chown and chmod. after deactivating
UAC, service installs and configurations proceeded with no surprises.
(services, here, included cygrunsrv, crontab, exim, and sshd.)
i've never run vista, so i'm new to the UAC. is it normal procedure to
deactivate UAC like this?
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