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


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.


Yaakov


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