Windows Vista

Scott Fordin scott@ohelp.com
Tue Apr 24 14:14:00 GMT 2007


Brian Dessent wrote:
> Scott Fordin wrote:
>> Also make sure that you run the Cygwin setup as Administrator.
> 
> Eh?  I just installed on Vista yesterday and all I had to do was click
> on setup.exe.  Vista asked to run it as administrator since the
> executable is named setup.exe.   I didn't have to do anything special.

Dunno. It was the only I way I could get it to work, and I was
following advice I read elsewhere. In any case, it did work when
I ran it as Administrator. Are there any downsides to doing it
this way?

Scott


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