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RE: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8


Yaakov (Cygwin/X) sent the following at Monday, June 17, 2013 7:17 PM
>On 2013-06-17 18:13, Chloe wrote:
>> But it will run if I double click it from Explorer.  I have
>> execute permissions.  What is wrong?
>
>Due to UAC Installer Detection, setup.exe requires Admin permissions
>in order to run, but bash doesn't know that.  Use cygstart
>/path/to/setup.exe to work around this.

Another thing to try is to rename setup.exe.
On Windows 7, getcygwin.exe works for me.

- Barry
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