[tex-live] Reinstall problem for Windows

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/1/28 Zheng, Wei <wzheng8 at uic.edu>:
> Thank you so much! Based on my experience, I believe I am in the first
> situation. I have searched everything named texlive and deleted them, but
> still not working. Could you please give more details about how to "look
> into the settings and remove them"?
>
Each new Windows release has slightly different GUI. It used to be in
Control Panel/System/Environment but I have never seen Windows 7, it
may be different. I am not a Windows user at all.

> Thanks a lot!
> Wei Zheng
>
> On Thu, January 28, 2010 2:24 am, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> 2010/1/28 Zheng, Wei <wzheng8 at uic.edu>:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I once installed the Texlive2009 in my Windows 7 system and uninstalled
>>> that using the control panel. Now I want to install it again. While I
>>> double click the file install-tl.bat, I was told that
>>>
>>> Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at
>>> ..../tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2047
>>>
>>> I guess my uninstall was not clean, and I can not reinstall now. I saw
>>> solutions for Linux system. Is there any solution for Windows?
>>>
>> I can imagine two reasons:
>>
>> 1. TeXLive remained in your PATH and it is now trying to search for
>> perl there. Look into your settings and remove it
>>
>> 2. Something from install-tl.zip is missing, it may be better to get a
>> fresh copy
>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>> Wei
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zdeněk Wagner
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>
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