I just ran another test. As the administrator, I set MikTeX to YES for install packaes on the fly.
Then, working as a NON administrative user, I start LyX. LyX will start if there is a pre-existing valid configuration. However, running Reconfigure results in a bad situation. The reconfiguration runs for an indefinite amount of time. After 2 hours, I quit watching. In the morning, LyX said it had reconfigured and I needed to close LyX and restart. However, LyX would not close. Neither LyX, nor the menu that said LyX is reconfigured, would respond to the mouse click. I killed them through the task manager. After that, trying to run LyX results in an immediate crash, for which the windows detail report is: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: LyX.exe Application Version: 0.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 4ed164e8 Fault Module Name: StackHash_43b7 Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17725 Fault Module Timestamp: 4ec49b8f Exception Code: c0000374 Exception Offset: 000ce6c3 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 43b7 Additional Information 2: 43b7aee6e9f9a30cb1f9dd54f63ac185 Additional Information 3: 2c34 Additional Information 4: 2c340dc5480cecae68c9d5f40888f7a1 Read our privacy statement online: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409 If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline: C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt After that, as administrator, I set MikTeX back to NO for install packages on the fly, and LyX starts right away. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
