Leonhard Horstmeyer <lm...@cam.ac.uk> writes: > I have just downloaded the emacs-24.2.tar.gz and followed the > instructions on http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html > After having downloaded a program to open tar. I unpacked the file.. > It says: "You can run Emacs without any extra steps, but if you want > icons in your Start Menu, or for Emacs to detect the image libraries > that are already installed on your system as part of GTK, then you > should run the program emacs-23.3\bin\addpm.exe."
It sounds like you have the Emacs source files, which isn't much use to you unless you want to compile it. Try the zip files at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ instead (you want the "bin" file, NOT the "barebin"). These are prebuilt Windows binaries.
