Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

[Jonathan Kulp]

Francisco Vila wrote:
> 2008/11/14 Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden>:
> > I have only upgraded a couple of times, and it was in response to this
> > thread, just to test it out.  It's possible that I upgraded one more time
> > before that.  I always use the Add/Remove program tool built into Windows,
> > accessed by the Control Panel.  On Linux I always run the uninstall script
> > that comes with Lilypond, but I don't know how to do this on Windows.  Like
> > I said, I don't use Windows regularly  (...poking in the Windows partition
> > now...) Aha!  I just noticed the uninstall.exe file in the Lilypond
> > directory!  Should I try running that and then doing a fresh reinstall of
> > Lilypond?  Does the Windows Add/Remove GUI use this uninstall.exe file or
> > does it use something else?  I can try this after lunch if you think it's a
> > good idea.
>
> The standar way of uninstalling lilypond on windows is to launch the
> Uninstall program found into the lilypond  entry of the Start button->
> programs menu.
For the sake of experiment, I'll try uninstalling this way instead of 
from the Control Panel, and then reinstall and see if it makes any 
difference.

> I think the Windows builtin Control Panel -> uninstall feature should
> use this program.

That would make sense, yes.

Jon
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