X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1291775976-3787753c0001-w5GHUG X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: Illia DOT Bobyr AT ronin-capital DOT com X-ASG-Whitelist: Client MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.6 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: skipping initial setup screens for existing installation with setup.exe? Subject: Re: skipping initial setup screens for existing installation with setup.exe? Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:39:13 -0600 Message-ID: <76B81B8B64B6254B98733990F38621DA6A86@sron-chi-exc05.ronin.roncap.com> In-reply-to: References: <4CFE8F46 DOT 20303 AT bopp DOT net> From: "Illia Bobyr" To: X-Barracuda-Connect: UNKNOWN[10.106.1.105] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1291775976 X-Barracuda-URL: http://spam01.roncap.com:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 12/7/2010 2:03 PM, Steven Lefevre wrote: > [...] > I had tried the -M option, but got no window. Perhaps there's another > problem that's causing my symptoms. > > I'm using Windows Vista. I have a shortcut on the desktop that > launches setup.exe. I've tried both the -M and --help switches, with > and without 'Run As Administrator' checked, but I get no window. > However, the shortcut works ( the window appears with the initial > screen) when I remove the switches. -M works for me on XP and 7. Maybe you are supplying the -M argument incorrectly in your shortcut? You may have double quotes around the setup.exe path. Make sure to put=20 the arguments outside the quotes. -- 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