On December 16, 2014 5:56:16 PM EST, Kevin Van Horn <kevin.vanh...@themodellers.com> wrote: >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). > > >--
Try renaming setup to something else, cygwin-harmless.exe -no-admin -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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
