[texhax] A headache with MikTex 2.7

[Lars Madsen]

mw253 at cornell.edu wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> Thanks a lot for the quick reply.  I did have a fatal error: 
> TeXnicCenter couldn't produce .aux file (after running compile, there is 
> no .aux file generated).   Here is the error message:
> 
> Fatal format file error; I'm stymied.
> 
> I couldn't open the file "Couldn't open file name D:\...\Latex1.aux"
> Couldn't find the index input file D:\...\LateX1 or D:\...\LateX1.idx
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Miao

Hmm, I'm not a MikTeX og TeXnicCenter user, but try the following

rebuild the formats, aka. start -> programs -> MikTeX 2.7 -> settings 
there is a button somewhere to rebuild the formats

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/daleif