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Subject: Re: Did anyone download the Windows 7 beta?
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in january there was discussion about the windows 7 beta and how cygwin 
was performing on it.  i'm late to the party on this issue and did not 
have the same experience related by the early adopters at that time.

i'm currently running win7 as a vmware guest with 2 cpus and 1G memory on 
a quad cpu ubuntu host.  in order to install services, i had to turn off 
win7 UAC entirely.  i tried each of the top two settings for UAC and 
neither allowed any changes to files or directories (after a full download 
using setup).  i could not change permissions on c:\cygwin or 
c:\cygwin\home, for instance, from either properties dialogs or from 
within a bash shell session using chown and chmod.  after deactivating 
UAC, service installs and configurations proceeded with no surprises. 
(services, here, included cygrunsrv, crontab, exim, and sshd.)

i've never run vista, so i'm new to the UAC.  is it normal procedure to 
deactivate UAC like this?

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