<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I am not really a hero with Windows, but maybe:<br><br>- Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Software, and remove everything related to TeXLive<br>- Check the directories manually and manually remove any remaining files / directories<br>- Install TeXLive from scratch<br><br>Hopefully this will give you a clean system. Backup any personal material you may have put into the texmf tree. Otherwise, maybe you can find a "registry cleaning tool", maybe on SourceForge or similar?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Wilfred<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div
dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John Was <john.was@ntlworld.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex@tug.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:02 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I'm afraid I've run into something rather more serious. I installed the <br>2012 DVD and all went OK, but now from the command prompt I get<br><br>(null): fatal: Can't determine where the executable xetex is.<br><br>If I go manually to the TeXLive directory and click on xetex.exe (which <br>certainly is there), for a microsecond I get a DOS prompt box flashing up <br>but it immediately disappears.<br><br>The PATH environment is OK so I'm rather stumped - I think it's
probably a <br>Registry corruption, but any other ideas would be welcome!<br><br>Best wishes<br><br><br>John<br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Peter Dyballa" <<a ymailto="mailto:Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE" href="mailto:Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE">Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE</a>><br>To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <<a ymailto="mailto:xetex@tug.org" href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">xetex@tug.org</a>><br>Sent: 11 June 2013 16:02<br>Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX<br><br><br><br>Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was:<br><br>> I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated <br>> version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long way off now).<br><br>Instead of trying to install a newer xdvipdfmx (then this binary certainly <br>won't work because it would search its resources outside of TL '09), you <br>could update to a TL '13 pre-release…<br><br>> TL Manager isn't working either so it looks as
if something rather nasty <br>> has happened!<br><br>Does it see backups of the TL packages? Do you have made backups of your <br>system? Why not? A TL '09 manager does not work with any other release than <br>TL '09. And this release should still be available in the historic branch of <br>CTAN.<br><br>--<br>Greetings<br><br> Pete<br><br>Upgraded, adj.:<br>Didn't work the first time.<br><br><br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:<br> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex" target="_blank">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex </a><br><br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:<br> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex" target="_blank">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>