[tex-live] TeXlive 2010 on XP

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On 4 February 2011 20:01, Alister Mitchell
<alister.mitchell at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I installed on a test machine which had a relatively clean Win installation,
> and which worked as well as could be expected.  However, after the
> installation (which was the default), various problems appeared.  Most
> noticeably, very slow startup and a tendency to spend a long time hanging
> with little aparrent activity.  Also, the Add/Remove Programs list will not
> populate, which is a sign of a somewhat broken registry.

The impact of TeX Live on the registry is minimal (uninstall entry,
some file associations, system or user PATH---all standard stuff).  I
very much doubt that the problems you describe are related to TeX Live
at all.

Cheers,

Tomek