This is an example of the kind of thinking I'm describing when
I say things like the whole uac thing is meant to generate warm fuzzies
in the marketing department and to cover microsoft's ass. Check out

[url]http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1[/url]

for an explanation of some of the problems with cygwin on vista,
and then be sure to open

[url]http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/a/56a0ed11-e073-42f9-932b-38acd478f46d/WindowsVistaUACDevReqs.doc[/url]

and read the section on installer detection on page 13. This
is a security system????