title: MinGW-w64 installation fails with 'ERROR res' in windows 10
body: <p>The latest online installer (mingw-w64-install.exe from SourceForge) fails with 'Error res' message in the middle of installation. About several students out of 50 in my class were not able to install it. They had to use MinGW instead. All our efforts such as uninstalling, rebooting, cleaning up env variables and/or installing it in a new folder did not resolve the problem. </p>
  
  <p>I know that the exact same problem was reported a few years back and fixed at that time. I am afraid that the same bug sneaked in the recent installation script. </p>
  
  <p>By the way, a couple of my students reinstalled windows10 and then were able to install mingw-w64 successfully. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get around installing mingw-w64 without using mingw-w64-install.exe? </p>