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Thanks Achim and Larry for your responses and pointing out that setup.exe should be ran in a ms-windows console.  But, another point I was making,  is that in my opinion, setup.exe should not get into an infinite loop goobling up to 100% cpu usage, that 
setup.exe is out of control and indicates a design or coding flaw.  So when ran with administrators priveledges, unexpected bad side effects might occur.  Ideally, it would detect what ever is wrong and exit gracefully.  If there anyway I help spot the e
rrant code, please let me know and I would try to find a point where it breaks.

Regards

Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de> wrote:
> > setup hangs in a tight loop when I try the following command from a cygwin console:
> 
> You should start setup.exe from a cdm window, not a Cygwin console.
> Once you do this, setup.exe does take a few seconds (or up to two
> minutes if the package repository is on a network drive) from the time
> the windows pops up and the packages are listed on the console and the
> window becomes responsive again.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
> -- ...

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