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Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Kevin Van Horn <kevin dot vanhorn at themodellers dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:17:21 +0300
- Subject: Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer
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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).
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 17.12.2014, <01:15>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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