X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Windows Vista and CygWin Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:33:00 -0700 Message-ID: <1766AAD7EABB3E469524048832AF821CC45FB6@fastserver2.fastenterprises.com> From: "Jeremy T. Harrison" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id kB6GSjp5000302 >On Dec 6 07:31, Jeremy T. Harrison wrote: >> Please direct me if the following question has been answered - I searched the archives and did not find anything. >> >> I recently converted my Windows XP box to Windows Vista.? I am beyond RC1. >> >> I have tried multiple times to install Cygwin, never with success. > >Did you run setup by simply double clicking on it or did you start it >with right click - "Run as administrator". You might stumble over UAC. > > >Corinna Thank you for your suggestion -- I will try it with Run as Administrator -- that does give me some insight to other problems (folder permissions were totally hosed) I was having with my 'run' of Cygwin. As before, I will post my results! Jeremy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/