On Oct 24 01:53, Dave Korn wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > > Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> However because of the scary comment about win7, I think this must be a > >> slightly hairy and not necessarily entirely backward-compatible area. I've > >> tested it on XP and 2k; can anyone help out by checking it on any of > >> NT/2k3/Vista/2k8/W7 for me? I just moved my desktop icons and start folder > >> menu out of the way, clicked through it in "install from local package dir" > >> and "keep" mode, and verified in windows explorer that it had created the > >> new > >> shortcuts correctly, I think that's sufficient. > > > > Windows Vista SP2: it did create the shortcuts. > > > > However, on exit I got the "This program might not have installed > > correctly...'Reinstall using recommended settings' or [confirm] 'This > > program installed correctly'" dialog box. Is that an indication of > > crash-on-exit? The log files seemed to be fine. > > I think that's a UAC thingy to do with how elevated it was or was not and
I tested setup with your patch applied on two Windows 7 32 and one 64 bit machine and it worked fine in all three cases. I didn't even get the above "This program might not have installed correctly..." message, even though I got it when using setup without your patch. Looks like a clear win to me. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
