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RE: Strange problem running Cygwin installer
- From: Bob Doskuno <bigbob2k01 at yahoo dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:48:34 -0500
- Subject: RE: Strange problem running Cygwin installer
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On December 16, 2014 5:56:16 PM EST, Kevin Van Horn <kevin.vanhorn@themodellers.com> wrote:
>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).
>
>
>--
Try renaming setup to something else,
cygwin-harmless.exe -no-admin
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