<div dir="ltr">Have you tried PROTEXT (<a href="http://tug.org/protext/">http://tug.org/protext/</a>). This is a relatively easy-to-install package that can be downloaded as a zip file (about 1.1 GB). It contains Miktex and Texstudio, a GUI for Tex which is currently being maintained (see <a href="https://www.texstudio.org/">https://www.texstudio.org/</a>), The entire package is installed with a single setup.exe file. It can be loaded onto a USB key and run from there. I have not installed it recently but there was a time when I used to distribute it on a DVD to beginners and no one had any problems installing it. <div><br></div><div> <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>John C Frain<br></div>3 Aranleigh Park<br><div><div>Rathfarnham<br>Dublin 14<br>Ireland<br><a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html" target="_blank">www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html</a><br>mailto:<a href="mailto:frainj@tcd.ie" target="_blank">frainj@tcd.ie</a><br>mailto:<a href="mailto:frainj@gmail.com" target="_blank">frainj@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 12:25, Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk">P.Taylor@hellenic-institute.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Dr Alan Litchfield wrote:<br>
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<p>[Download the iso image and] mount it onto your computer.<br>
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Not possible under Windows 7, Alan, unless additional software is
installed. But to Bob :<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been happily using PCTeX all these
years, and will continue to do so but it seems like PCTeX has
left us in the past two years since I communicated with someone
there at the company. Does anyone know what happened to them? <a href="https://www.pctex.com/" target="_blank">https://www.pctex.com/</a>
website seems abandoned</p>
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Pass. Although I used to pay for TeX back in the Kellerman &
Smith days, I have not done so since then, and have never paid for a
PC version. Many years ago the late, great, Sebastian Rahtz
persuaded me to switch to TeX Live, and I have never looked back.
In the past I would use the network installer, or download and burn
the ISO, or download and mount the ISO, but these days I use Rsynch
to fetch the installation suite and install from my local copy. The
real problem is that TeX Live is not a Windows product — it is a
generic product that has to support $2^n+1$ variant operating
systems (how many different ways can you spell "Linux" ?), and as a
result the documentation too has to be generic, which is distinctly
sub-optimal.<br>
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I am certain that together the TeX user community will be able to
assist you, but some background information will be vital, and it
will almost certainly take several iterations before we achieve
complete success. So, questions :<br>
<ol>
<li>Exactly which operating system are you running</li>
<li>Are you able to access your computer as am administrator</li>
<li>Do you have fast Internet access from your computer ? (where
"fast" => better than 10Mbps) ?</li>
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<p>And to my fellow TeX and Windows users — given that one can
install (for example) Windows 7 from a USB stick, using the <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/download/details.aspx?id=56485" target="_blank">Microsoft
Windows USB/DVD download tool</a>, has anyone investigated
whether an analogous methodology could be used to install TeX Live
from a USB stick for people such as Bob who lack a DVD reader ?<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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