Re: LilyPond is excessively slow on Windows Vista

[Jonathan Kulp]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> OK, Jonathan, thanks.  Let's see if we together can get a bit further with
> solving this problem since we have very similar systems - mine works,
> yours doesn't - so all we have to do is find what is different.  I'd bet 
> it is
> something to do with the different history of LP installs on the two 
> systems.
>
> First, a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Do you remember the version number of the earliest LilyPond you
> installed on this system?  In particular, was it earlier than 2.11.43,
> released around March 08?

I bought the laptop in June and installed whatever the latest version 
was at the time.

> 2) When you upgrade do you use the uninstall utility that comes with
> LilyPond to remove the old version, or some other method?
>
> Trevor
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.

Jon



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