Cygwin setup.exe hangs during install Windows 8? How should I continue?

Question

So I have used Cygwin on and off for the past few years and I\'ve installed it a handful of times. However, I\'ve never experienced the install hanging during the install proce

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem on my Win7 64 bits with the 64 bits installer. I successfully solved the problem by deleting the content of

c:\[cygwin_install_dir]\var\log

Which contained two files:

• setup.log
• setup.log.full

Restarted the installer and everything went well!

Hope this will help.