Hello all,
I upgraded from Miktex 2.7 to 2.9 yesterday on my Vista system [I'm an
experienced LaTeX user currently working in industry. Needed to write
a technical paper and went back to LaTeX] and it's been a nightmare.
Your help is much appreciated.
Here's a chronicle of my issues:
1. After installing, I tried compiling a simple document [my own]. It
said something about not finding hyperref. So I tried updating MikTeX
using the update manager, it didn't work. When I ask it to install the
missing package via package manager, [which I'd set to install
missing packages on the fly], it gave an error like this:
'Windows API error 5: Access is denied.'
Did a reboot but no luck in making it go away. A Google search showed
nothing directly relevant but some reports that Adobe is an issue so
uninstalled that [I had Adobe Reader X]. Still no luck.
2. I then thought it was an installation problem and tried to
uninstall and now it gives me the following error:
'The operation could not be completed for the following reason:
The IniTeXMF executable could not be found'
3. I then made sure my anti-virus system {Norton} was not blocking and
and that was fine. Tried a recompile of the basic tex file and here's
the message in TeXworks:
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (MiKTeX 2.9)
miktex-pdftex.exe: The memory dump file could not be found.
miktex-pdftex.exe: Data: pdflatex.fmt
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Tried to run update/package manager again and the former says 'no
new updates' while the latter hangs ['Not responding' message].
From what I can tell, the installation is broken but I don't know how
to uninstall or fix it. Please help!!!