From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6796 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2008 16:43:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 6781 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Sep 2008 16:43:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (194.72.81.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:42:45 +0000 Received: from ALBATROSS ([192.168.1.150]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:42:42 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "Thread TITTTL'd!" References: <1b185450809151731h1a43b162jea4fd597980c0841@mail.gmail.com> <48CF143A.9070407@cygwin.com> Subject: RE: Lastest setup.exe gives error message mount: Access is Denied Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: <013801c918e4$67f1f4d0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <48CF143A.9070407@cygwin.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2008-q3/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 16 September 2008 03:05: > Michael Kokich wrote: >> I've solved the problem now! But I'm not sure why this solves it. >> >> So the right clicked and ran setup using 'Run as Administrator' but it >> was still giving me the mount error when it got to the part to install. >> >> I then decided that I would try turning UAC on and then run the >> setup.exe again. And this time it has installed without complaint. >> >> I dont' know why I turned UAC back on, but it has seemed to fixed it. > > You're right. That makes no sense. ;-) Or to put it another way, that's by design. Microsoft design. See also system32/sysnative nonsense! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....