Hi In the first instance have a look here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup Rob S > > Hi.. I was trying to help a friend install Ruurd's win32 version on > windows. Everything seemed to have gone fine but the configure > script doesn't seem to be able to find the converters for latex to > dvi, latex to pdf, ps to pdf etc. We installed MikTeX just before > installing LyX and I verified that these converters were present. So > right now the View menu is empty, and so is the export menu in LyX. > Any ideas on what might be wrong and what I need to do? I don't have > much experience w/ LyX on Windows so would appreciate any help... > incidentally, I installed this version on my Windows machine a few > weeks back and everything went fine. I followed the exact same > procedure this time too.. only difference I can think of is that > this friend's machine had some previous version of MikTeX installed, > which we deleted before installing the latest version... > > Thanks, > nirmal