> > I am not sure what is going on. If you follow the instructions as > mentioned > > in User's Guide you should be up and running. > > > > By the way, do you have some sort of weird Administrative privileges > set on > > your Windows 2000. That is the only reason I can think of... in > those kinds > > of cases Windows loves to give you goofy error messages... > > Try logining in as Administrator and see if you can execute using > Admin > > account. If that works then you need to investigate the privileges > issue at > > your workstation. > > > > Suhaib > i am the admin for my computer i have full privs i have not rebooted > in a few days (about 2 weeks) could this be part of the problem and i > must compliment you on your timley reply i figured it would be a few > days b4 you got back to me :-) hmm i dunno is there any procedure for > starting over ? or do you think cygwin could be missing a file of some > sort i have looked with explorer like i said and the XWin.exe is there > but it dosent print out with a dir command in cygwin but if i go the > usr/x11r6/bin in a dos console i can see it there ? any ideas > again i thank you for your prompt responce > charles I suggest you re-install Cygwin. Something is gone wrong at your PC. Suhaib