Starting with LaTeX. Immidiately get an error

Asked Jan 13 '13 at 10:24

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the memory dump file could not be found

Just trying to get started here with LaTeX, but I immediately get this strange error. I'm not much of a computer scientist to understand what I need to do next. Tried some Google searches but that was not of much help to me. Do you guys know what to do?

The error:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (MiKTeX 2.9)
pdflatex.exe: The memory dump file could not be found.
pdflatex.exe: Data: pdflatex.fmt

I was typing some basic stuff, and then pressing the green 'play' button. It seems to me that he has trouble finding the pdflatex.exe?

For extra information:

Using MiKTeX version 2.9 and TeXworks version 0.4.4.1003

edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

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asked Jan 13 '13 at 10:24

InteressantPunt

Welcome to TeX.SX. – Claudio Fiandrino Jan 13 '13 at 10:26
Possible duplicates: error: pdflatex.exe: the memory dump file could not be found, the memory dump file could not be found – You Jan 13 '13 at 10:32
Thank you Claudio Fiandrino. The answer was in the 'rights' of the user.
When i close TeXworks and reopen by right clicking and then selecting: "Run as administrator" then the error is gone and it works like a charm.
– InteressantPunt Jan 13 '13 at 10:47

Starting with LaTeX. Immidiately get an error

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