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RE: Strange problem running Cygwin installer


Thanks, Andrey. Unfortunately, I get exactly the same behavior when I use "run as administrator".

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdaemon@yandex.ru] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:17 PM
To: Kevin Van Horn; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

Greetings, Kevin Van Horn!

> I'm having an odd problem installing Cygwin. After downloading the 
> installer and double-clicking on it, and clicking "Run" on the "Open 
> File - Security Warning" popup dialog, I get the "busy" wheel for 
> maybe 1 or two seconds,  then it disappears and nothing else happens - 
> no installer window, nothing. However, Task Manager still shows the installer process, although it is not using any CPU.

> This is on a machine running Windows 7 Professional. It happens with both setup-x86.exe and setup-x86_64.exe.

If you are aiming at default installation, try to right-click it and "run as administrator".
If you need to install it in restricted environment without access to superadmin rights, you'd need to use commandline switch (-B it is if I'm not mistaken).


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 17.12.2014, <01:15>

Sorry for my terrible english...



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