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Installing Cygwin on Windows XP without having the admin rights?

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Mar 15, 202611965 views
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Is it possible to install Cygwin on a Windows XP system without having the admin rights?

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Fix for: Installing Cygwin on Windows XP without having the admin rights?

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To install Cygwin on Windows 7 without administrator rights, you first have to rename the setup program of Cygwin ( ) to something else (e.g. ). If the Cygwin setup is named , Windows 7 (or Cygwin?) seems to assume that it needs administrator rights…

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