<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello Shristi,<br><br></div>The message seems to indicate that your installation of MiKTeX didn't succeed. There might have been a network error downloading files during the installation, and therefore MiKTeX didn't do the setup necessary as part of the installation.<br><br></div>Probably, you should delete the directory where it was installed (if uninstall through Programs is not available), and try to install it again, paying close attention to see if the installation completes.<br><br></div>best regards,<br><br></div>Graham<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Shristi Mishra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shristimishra2610@gmail.com" target="_blank">shristimishra2610@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">I tried compiling an already existing .tex file in the newly
installed TexWorks software. It shows the following error: </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">I would really appreciate it if you could help me out with
this.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">“Sorry,
but "MiKTeX Configuration Utility" did not succeed.</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">The log file hopefully contains the information to get
MiKTeX going again:</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">C:/Users/DELL/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/initexmf.log</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page
(<a href="http://miktex.org" target="_blank">http://miktex.org</a>), if you</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">need help.</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">Sorry, but C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\miktex-pdftex.exe did not succeed.</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">The log file hopefully contains the information to get
MiKTeX going again:</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">C:/Users/DELL/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/miktex-pdftex.log</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"> </p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page
(<a href="http://miktex.org" target="_blank">http://miktex.org</a>), if you</p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">need help.”</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>