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=== GUI Installer ===
{{note|The installer seems to have been broken since autumn 2010 and still is in November 2011, at least in some versions of Windows, so proceed at your own risk.}}
There is also a [http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe GUI installer] made by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky. Download and run the installer and it will ask you where to install the minimals, which distribution to use (stable or beta) and whether or not you want to make formats.
{{note| The GUI installer asks if you want to set environmental variables globally. Click this only if you do '''not''' use MikTeX or TeXLive and do '''not''' plan to use LaTeX}}
You should also see the [http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2008/talks/2008-08-21-vyatcheslav-win-installer/windows_installer.pdf slides] giving details about the GUI installer.
If you used the GUI installer and said yes to setting the evironmental variables globally, then you can run ConTeXt from anywhere. Otherwise, before Before running ConTeXt, you need to run <code>setuptex.bat</code> which is provided in <code>installation-dir\tex\</code>. This can be done by typing
If you used the GUI installer, just run the installer again.
If you used the GUI installer, you can use standard windows tools for uninstallation.
Removed ALL MENTIONS of GUI installer since the link is DEAD and it's been 2 years!
= Installation and use on Windows =
If you want to use ConTeXt suite alongside MikTeX/TeXLive (needed if you also run LaTeX), follow the command-line installation method. Otherwise, you can follow either the command line or GUI installation method.
== Installation ==
If the above installation instructions don't seem to answer your questions, see page [[Windows_Installation:_ConTeXt_Suite_with_SciTe| Windows Installation: ConTeXt Suite with SciTe]] for more detailed information.
== Proxy settings ==
== Usage ==
installation-dir\tex\setuptex.bat
to upgrade. See [[ConTeXt_Standalone#Installing_third_party_modules| Installing third party modules]] for details.
== Uninstallation ==
If you used the command-line installer, you can just delete the installation directory to uninstall the suite.
