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Am 26.06.2011 17:14 schrieb Andrew Hancock:
> Thanks for any comments or suggestions for courses of action.  I'm
> beginning to wonder if a fundamental incompatibility with Windows 7
> (64-bit, in case it matters) could prevent the use of Cygwin on my
> machine.   Mega- :(

It works as designed (TM). That's the Vista file virtualization in action,
which is supposed to increase application compatibility in conjunction
with UAC.

Section "File Virtualization" from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx has more on it.



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