cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

Frédéric Bron frederic.bron@m4x.org
Thu Sep 12 15:31:00 GMT 2013


> Try *copying* setup64.exe to foo.exe.  Or download it again but save it
> with the name foo.exe.
> Windows may be remembering that the file used to be called setup*.exe.
> That memory might not get copied.

Doesn't work: "the requested operation requires elevation".


I am packaging a program with NSIS and I had to explicitly set the
required execution level with:
"RequestExecutionLevel user"
Would it be possible to do something similar for cygwin setup?

Frédéric

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