Hello,

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From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of 
Paul Rubin
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:39 PM

> When you successfully run latex at a command prompt, you are doing so with 
> the limited rights account, correct?

Yes.

> Am I correct in assuming that if you log in with the local admin account, LyX 
> works correctly for you?

Yes.

> One thing you might try is to delete the local LyX directory for the limited 
> rights user, then restart LyX (as the limited rights user) and let it try to 
> rebuild that directory.  I think the directory is usually stored at 
> C:\Documents and Settings\<limited rights user id>\Application Data\lyx.  
> (Unfortunately I don't have access to a Win XP machine anymore.)  Just delete 
> the entire directory.  I you have modified any bind or layout files, you 
> might want to back those up first, but if this is an out-of-the-box LyX 
> installation there is nothing there you need to worry about.

I tried that (directories are actually called LyX2.0 and lyx16). It worked for 
1.6.10 - thanks for the help - but for 2.0.0 the problem persists. So it 
probably is related to some change from 1.6 to 2.0.

Matthias

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