DVI previewer gone haywire

[Herbert Gintis]

In this situation, I would just reinstall the TeX system. It's not that
hard or time consuming.
Short of that, you can check your dviwindo.ini, which is located in the
main windows directory (e.g., \windows).

Herb Gintis

At 11:04 AM 11/8/2004, LMS journals wrote:
>Helpppp!!!
>
>I've just done a backup of my whole hard drive, prior to installing some new
>software.  I first did a disk cleanup and defrag.
>
>HOWEVER, before going ahead with the new install, I tried to use DVI windo,
>and each time I do, it goes into some sort of endless loop, with the
>hourglass showing, and the only way I can stop it is to switch the whole
>computer off at the wall (Ctrl/Alt/Del has no effect, and nor does the
>on/off button on the hard drive.)
>
>I assume that something has got screwed up in the defrag, and that I'll need
>to re-install -- but I'd like to do as little as poss, so as to keep
>settings, etc.  Using DVIWindo, I can Latex an existing file, I can run
>Bibtex, but the previewer causes the disaster.  Trying to open a dvi file
>from the main DVIWindo menu, or from Explorer, has the same effect.
>
>Helpful thoughts, please???
>
>That'll teach me to try and be conscientious....
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Sue

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