Cannot run mintty in administrator mode on windows 7

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Install mintty through cygwin 
2.Attempt to run mintty default cygwin shortcut in administrator mode

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect a normal bash shell prompt. Instead I get 

"Failed to create child process: Resource temporarily unavailable."

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6.1 or 0.5.8 on Windows 7 (64 bit)

Please provide any additional information below.
The cygwin.bat file that loads bash directly in a standard window has no
problem being run as an administrator.  Therefore I have to assume the
fault lies in mintty somewhere. I love mintty too much though to just
accept the lousy windows window.  Please help.  I want to be able to run
commands like "net start sshd" which require the stupid admin mode.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by herrn...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2010 at 12:34

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That message means Cygwin's fork() is failing. Nothing mintty can do about 
that. It's 
a common occurrence on Vista and 7, which is to do with Windows randomising the 
placement of DLLs in memory. The cure is 'rebaseall':

    1. shutdown all Cygwin processes and services
    2. start ash (do not use bash or rxvt)
    3. execute /bin/rebaseall (in the ash window)

See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-3.0.1.README for lots more on that. If it 
doesn't 
help, an entry on the "Big List Of Dodgy Apps" could be to blame: 
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

Original comment by andy.koppe on 3 Apr 2010 at 6:03

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Ahh thanks for that info.  I felt kind bad accusing mintty, which is awesome by 
the
way, but it seemed to be the only part that was acting odd.  Your explanation 
also
solved a problem I was having with subversion.  Migrating to win7 has been less 
than
pleasant.  Non-functioning, unreliable cygwin would be something of a deal 
breaker
for me.  Windows needs sudo...

Original comment by herrn...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2010 at 7:37

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No worries, I can see why that would have looked like a mintty issue. Perhaps I 
should 
put a pointer to rebaseall in the error message.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 4 Apr 2010 at 10:14

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That sounds like a good idea.  I've been using cygwin for years and never heard 
of or
had the need to use rebaseall.

Original comment by herrn...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2010 at 6:06

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Added pointer to rebaseall in r823 on 0.6 branch.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 14 Apr 2010 at 5:24