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On 2011-04-16 02:34Z, Dov Kruger wrote:
> We have two fairly identical windows XP boxes.  On mine, cygwin is working
> beautifully, with X.  My coworker tried, but she didn't have admin rights
> and X wouldn't install right. Then she got the coveted admin rights, so we
> tried to re-install.  It failed.  So we thought we would install clean,
> deleting c:\cygwin and starting over.  The installation fails in the
> middle with the following error:

Because the first attempt failed, I'd do this:
  http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

> Microsoft visual c++ runtime library
> Runtime Error!
> Program: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> ?       This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> unusual way     11:09:10 AM

That's weird: 'cygcheck /bin/bash' should confirm that bash.exe does not
depend on the msvc runtime. Yet there have been a few similar reports:
  http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acygwin.com+"Microsoft+visual+c%2B%2B+runtime+library"
Based on them, I'd suggest that you
 - remove cygwin completely as above, but in step four also remove the
   download directory;
 - set a minimal %PATH% before starting setup.exe to reinstall;
 - run cygcheck -s -v -r as suggested here:
     http://cygwin.com/problems.html
   being especially wary of multiple cygwin dlls...and post the output
   here as an attachment if there are any further problems

> I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2003.net and 2005 installed.  She does not.
> How can I view a log so we can determine what DLL is failing?

One of the messages found by googling as above suggests Dependency Walker.

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