Daniel> Please describe as succinctly as possible: Daniel> - What happened. Daniel> I installed xemacs-21.4.10 on windows XP, then tried to Daniel> open Xemacs A message box popped up saying that it Daniel> couldn't find cygXpm-noX4.dll and it said to reinstall, Hi Daniel, do you have cygwin installed (send us output of M-x shell-command uname -a)? If not, you should install the native version instead of the cygwin version. If you want cygwin XEmacs and have sygwin installed, you need to review whether you installed all required cygwin packages (cygXpm at least seems missing, but since cygwin1.dll is not found either you might not have installed cygwin at all). Hope this helps, Adrian Daniel> which I did but nothing changed I even tried installing to Daniel> an alternative directory but it still came up with that Daniel> message I clicked on some other *.exe files in the Xemacs Daniel> directory and they all said that cygwin1.dll could not be Daniel> found neither of these dll files are present anywhere on Daniel> my pc even though i downloaded and installed all the Daniel> packages etc Daniel> - What you thought should have happened. Daniel> Xemacs should have opened Daniel> - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Daniel> tring to use Xemacs Daniel> I would appreciate it if I could be told where to get Daniel> these files from and where to put them Daniel> thank you in advance Daniel> Daniel Cardwell -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/