It seems that nobody has answered your question yet. You managed to save a HTML copy (i.e. a web page) of the test file. Make sure that you right click on the link test.ly and choose save to file. Also, make sure that it really is called test.ly and not test.ly.html or something like that.
You will not get any icon or start menu entry saying "LilyPond", since what you really installed was Cygwin, which is like a UNIX/Linux operating system that can be run in Windows. I hope you have started reading the Tutorial, since otherwise it's impossible to do anything useful with the program. On the other hand, once you have passed the initial threshold, you will hopefully find that the program produces very nice output and that it is quicker to enter the music in a text file than using a fancy graphical user interface, at least that's what many others have said on this mailing list.
/Mats
Maria Flaate wrote:
Hello,
I decided I'd download LilyPond after continuous gushing about it from some of my friends. I'm not quite a whiz with computers, but I thought I'd give it a go. I've got Windows 98 on this machine. I think I've managed to download the programme, but when it came to downloading the test as explained in step 2, I fell out of it. I've saved the test.ly file on my desktop, double-clicked, but it just comes up as an html page on the internet. I'm fairly sure we've got a PDF viewer installed. It could be that I didn't manage to install it, it took about an hour, I don't know how long it's supposed to take.
Also, when I go to the Start menu and so on, there isn't any sign of LilyPond anywhere. I don't know if it's supposed to be there along with the things that you click on to get to Word etc. (not the icons on the desktop, but inside the menu--did I mention I'm not very good at computers?), but it'd certainly help, because I don't know how I'm supposed to get access to the programme otherwise.
Thank you very much for any help you can offer. I'm looking forward to using LilyPond!
Sincerely, Maria Flaate
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