chip wrote: > Generally speaking, when it comes to Windows documentation - it > is almost always dummy proof. Showing every step one might come > across during the process. It applies to XP as that is what I > use, should apply equally to NT and 2000. Never seen ME, does > anyone actually use it? Vista has the same steps but a different > control panel. I don't have a Vista machine to get the exact > steps.
Graham, I'm with Chip here. Explicit, unambiguous, fool-proof. Have you noticed the troubles I've had recently with abbreviated instructions? (: Assume nothing; assume the user is a robot. Chip, I can't say for certain, but on Windows I seem to recall that the two uninstall options are not always the same? The rumor I hear the most often is that the uninstall.exe provided by the program usually knows how to uninstall the program (and all of its potentially disjunct files) better than the control panel uninstall function, which may accidentally leave some distant files undeleted (perhaps not a big issue with LilyPond, though). But a lot of programs store files in some arcane places like the Application Data or Local Settings folders. Not to mention there are at least 3 different folders called Application Data in the directory tree. What a dumb design. The other thing is that LilyPond's uninstall.exe knows which program files you've altered and smartly leaves those undeleted. So if you fiddle around with some settings in the scm folder, you won't accidentally delete your changes when you uninstall. Off hand, I don't know if the Control Panel uninstall is that smart. If anyone can comment on these issues, I'd be interested. - Mark _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user