Thanks, Andrey. Unfortunately, I get exactly the same behavior when I use "run as administrator".
-----Original Message----- From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:17 PM To: Kevin Van Horn; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer 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). -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 17.12.2014, <01:15> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
