Yaakov (Cygwin/X) sent the following at Monday, June 17, 2013 7:17 PM >On 2013-06-17 18:13, Chloe wrote: >> But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have >> execute permissions. What is wrong? > >Due to UAC Installer Detection, setup.exe requires Admin permissions >in order to run, but bash doesn't know that. Use cygstart >/path/to/setup.exe to work around this.
Another thing to try is to rename setup.exe. On Windows 7, getcygwin.exe works for me. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple