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Re: 64 bit setup fails to run on WIndows 10
On 2019-03-11 15:39, Adrian Blakey wrote:
> Any ideas why the 64 bit setup program fails to run at all on my corporate
> Windows 10 laptop, whereas the 32 setup runs fine?
>
> The symptoms are whenever I run it either from the finder or from the
> command line it does not initialize or produce any output.
>
> The machine is modern Lenovo Thinkpad that's only a couple of years old.
> it's running:
>
> Windows 10 Enterprise V 1703 OS Build 15063.1631 64 bit.
>
> I believe I have admin rights however even if I try to run it with
> --no-admin it makes no difference - it simply does not execute. I have
> noticed the same behavior with a couple of other open source windows
> installers.
Remove the downloaded file's Alternate Data Stream Zone.Identifier or Unblock in
file properties, and make executable, then check for other impediments in
Cygwin's Big List Of Dodgy Apps
https://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA
at
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda
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