Hi Jim, I think that you can expect a very good experience on Windows without admin rights. You may want to take a look at LyX-Portable. There is even a project devoted to creating a LyX on Windows experience that can be run from a memory stick (see http://code.google.com/p/lytex/).
Additional information can be found on the Wiki, as well (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/PortableInstallation). In my case, I prefer to install LaTeX as a local user. I then compile LyX from source and manually set up my path environment. This is pretty easy to do from the environment variables dialog. (On Windows 7 or Vista, just type path into the search bar. It will pull up the right dialog in the Control Panel.) Cheers, Rob On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Jim Rockford wrote: > This issue has come up in older threads, and I was curious to know where it > stands today. As a long-time lyx user, I am in the unfortunate position of > being in a Windoze-only (XP) environment without administrator privileges. > Can anyone offer some insight as to whether I could expect a smooth-running > lyx experience with Lyx and MikTex installed to a directory of choice for > just a plain old ordinary Windoze user? Does Aspell still require > installation to the C:\ directory? > > If I can overcome this hurdle, the next one will involve the seamless > conversion of lyx/latex to MS Word and back, which I understand is a far more > challenging issue without commercial software. > > Thanks, > Jim
