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Re: [PATCH/CFT] Fix setup.exe COM initialisation problem.


On Oct 24 01:53, Dave Korn wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Dave Korn wrote:
> > 
> >>   However because of the scary comment about win7, I think this must be a
> >> slightly hairy and not necessarily entirely backward-compatible area.  I've
> >> tested it on XP and 2k; can anyone help out by checking it on any of
> >> NT/2k3/Vista/2k8/W7 for me?  I just moved my desktop icons and start folder
> >> menu out of the way, clicked through it in "install from local package dir"
> >> and "keep" mode, and verified in windows explorer that it had created the new
> >> shortcuts correctly, I think that's sufficient.
> > 
> > Windows Vista SP2: it did create the shortcuts.
> > 
> > However, on exit I got the "This program might not have installed
> > correctly...'Reinstall using recommended settings' or [confirm] 'This
> > program installed correctly'" dialog box.  Is that an indication of
> > crash-on-exit?  The log files seemed to be fine.
> 
>   I think that's a UAC thingy to do with how elevated it was or was not and

I tested setup with your patch applied on two Windows 7 32 and one 64 bit
machine and it worked fine in all three cases.  I didn't even get the
above "This program might not have installed correctly..." message, even
though I got it when using setup without your patch.  Looks like a clear
win to me.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat


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