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Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives


On Dec  3 13:13, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec  2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote:
> >>Any suggestions on how to have a shortcut (or something similar) that
> >>runs mintty as admin, but has no global effect on other mintty launches?
> >You seem to have gotten something else wrong here.  If the shortcut has
> >the "run as admin" flag, it only affects this shortcut.  I have two
> >shortcuts on the desktop, one called "Cygwin64 Terminal", the other one
> >"Cygwin64 Admin".
> I think the difference is where you select the checkbox. There's one
> in Compatibility->Privilege Level->Run as admin, and another in
> Shortcut->Advanced->Run as admin. The compatibility one is telling
> windows that to execute mintty correctly it needs admin privileges,
> so it always runs mintty this way. The latter is the one that just
> affects the shortcut.

Spot on.  I guess that's it.  I completely forgot about the "run as
admin" switch in the compatibility tab, only seeing the "run as admin"
switch in the shortcut's advanced settings.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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