Do you have miktex installed? Steven
-----Original Message----- From: Srinivas Nedunuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:52 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Problem w/ Windows install: no layout description I installed the Windows version of Lyx on my machine. However, when I try to start up Lyx, I get an error message that says "lyx wasn't able to find any layout description... Check the contents of the file "textclass.lst"". I looked at textclass.lst in .../lyx/share/lyx but I really have no idea what I'm looking for. (Also, when I first started up Lyx, and tried to install the ieeetrans package from the internet, the program started thrashing the disk and eventually just died. The above is the mssage I get when I subsequently start it up again) thanks