Hans et al, For our students, I need to have Miktex and at least one of these distributions (mswintex.zip or mswincontext.zip) coexisting side by side. I've got Miktex installed and working with the Texniccener IDE for student use. Now, I need to get context and metapost working properly (no longer any mptopdf in the Miktex distro). Students don't deal well with DOS boxes and terminals at first (they can grow into them), so what I need is a scite icon on the desktop, that when clicked, will open and work (for context and metapost). I had already loaded mswintex.zip on each machine in our lab, run first-setup.bat. I also installed Scite by downloading from the scintilla site. I finally figured out that you need to import context in the Globals, though (the http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ mscite-p.pdf said it should work in user as well, which I could not get to work. So, as I understand it now, the difference is the mswincontext.zip comes with perl and ruby, but we already have perl and ruby installed. If I get rid of the gems (how?) then I should be able to make progress? What I need is students to have both scite and texniccenter running at the same time. What are my best options? Thanks. D.