Hi Rad, rade dimitric schrieb: > I picked up the TUG CD at the last AMS/MAA meeting but installing is not > (fully) working. All the files are loaded for MikTeX, the ghost and > postcript viewers, the only problem is that I do not get the shortcuts > either on the desktop or in the list of installed programs/files. Thus, > when I run installation of TeXnicCenter for instance, when the program > gets to "creating shortcuts" it gives me a message: "Internal error: > failed to expand shell folder constant 'userdocs' " This happens with > installation of all MikTex, and the viewer programs, although I can > manually create shortcuts for the viewers which seem to be working. > > I have a new laptop, plenty of hard disk space, 2Ghz, and 2gig RAM, XP as > operating system. Could this have something to do with windows not > letting the "intruders" in , or what is it? > I had no problem installing old MikTex on another computer, when it was > done more manually. > Somebody can enlighten me?
i can't believe that the problem is caused by the way MiKTeX (and the rest of the programs) is installed, which means you can also install it manually by invoking the setup-routine directly in yourCDdrive\MiKTeX\setup and act like you did before. Nevertheless i feeded your error message into Google and found the following notes which might solve your problem: http://www.passmark.com/forum/showthread.php?t=932 http://www.genie-soft.com/asp/Community/KnowledgeArticle.asp?KBID=141 Give it a try and perhaps send a response to me, if it works. Regards - Thomas -- http://tug.org/protext/
