Windows – Installing Cygwin on Windows XP without having the admin rights

cygwin;windows xp

Is it possible to install Cygwin on a Windows XP system without having the admin rights?

Best Answer

To install Cygwin on Windows 7 without administrator rights, you first have to rename the setup program of Cygwin (setup.exe) to something else (e.g. cygwin.exe).

If the Cygwin setup is named setup.exe, Windows 7 (or Cygwin?) seems to assume that it needs administrator rights to run.

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