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Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)
- From: Frédéric Bron <frederic dot bron at m4x dot org>
- To: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- Cc: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:26:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)
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> Try *copying* setup64.exe to foo.exe. Or download it again but save it
> with the name foo.exe.
> Windows may be remembering that the file used to be called setup*.exe.
> That memory might not get copied.
Doesn't work: "the requested operation requires elevation".
I am packaging a program with NSIS and I had to explicitly set the
required execution level with:
"RequestExecutionLevel user"
Would it be possible to do something similar for cygwin setup?
Frédéric
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