Frédéric Bron sent the following at Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:07 AM >I would like to run setup64.exe on Windows 7 without asking for admin >rights but the computer asks me for admin credentials. I read this: >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00286.html where Corinna >suggested to rename the .exe to foo.exe but this did not work. I also do >not have the rights to modify the Local Security Policy. > >Is there any workaround? Would it be possible to supply a setup that do >not need admin privileges?
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. For what it's worth, I think that setup should be renamed to something like getcygwin just to avoid this issue. - 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
