Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing

[Jon TURNEY]

On 19/02/2010 15:40, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
> I just did a fresh install on Vista, and confirmed the following
>
> 1) From an administrator account, it works out-of-the-box.  Beautiful.
> 2) From a regular user account, clicking the x-server or shell icons, produces a UAC prompt.
>
> The behavior, without changing anything whatsoever from the installed state, is that the regular user cannot run x or the bash shell console window without first entering a password for an administrator account.
>

If you can't start the bash shell (in a windows console or mintty window or 
whatever), then your problem isn't X specific, so I suggest you raise it on 
the main cygwin list.

 From the way you describe it, it sounds like you are getting a UAC prompt 
just to start these executables, rather than from anything they are trying to 
do? (although, from my recollection, the 'details' provided in a UAC prompt is 
some UUID, exactly how one is supposed to decode that to determine what action 
was taken which requires privilege, I don't know...)

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