Update to windows doc from Robert.
diff --git a/Doc/using/windows.rst b/Doc/using/windows.rst
index 9f549fa..9a16938 100644
--- a/Doc/using/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/windows.rst
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
Popular modules (such as PyWin32) with their respective documentation, tool
suite for building extensible python applications
+Notice that these packages are likely to install *older* versions of Python.
+
Configuring Python
@@ -85,10 +87,11 @@
Excursus: Setting environment variables
---------------------------------------
-Windows has a built-in dialog for changing environment variables: Right-click
-the icon for your machine (usually located on your Desktop and called "My
-Computer") and choose :menuselection:`Properties` there. Then, open the
-:guilabel:`Advanced` tab and click the :guilabel:`Environment Variables` button.
+Windows has a built-in dialog for changing environment variables (following
+guide applies to XP classical view): Right-click the icon for your machine
+(usually located on your Desktop and called "My Computer") and choose
+:menuselection:`Properties` there. Then, open the :guilabel:`Advanced` tab
+and click the :guilabel:`Environment Variables` button.
In short, your path is:
@@ -107,7 +110,8 @@
set PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;C:\My_python_lib
To make this setting permanent, you could add the corresponding command line to
-your :file:`autoexec.bat`.
+your :file:`autoexec.bat`. :program:`msconfig` is a graphical interface to this
+file.
Viewing environment variables can also be done more straight-forward: The
command prompt will expand strings wrapped into percent signs automatically::
@@ -124,6 +128,9 @@
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519
How To Manage Environment Variables in Windows XP
+ http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/faq/q1.html
+ Setting Environment variables, Louis J. Farrugia
+
Finding the Python executable
-----------------------------