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I have Emacs 24 and MikTeX on Windows 7 professional and I have recently installed AUCTeX 11.86 from package-install.

The installation seems to have completed successfully, I even succeeded at compiling a latex sample file, but I can use AUCTeX only in the emacs instance where I issued the installation command, where it gets loaded by package-install. I can't do the same with a new emacs instance.

Nothing seems to have been written in my .emacs file upon installation and I can't find the auctex.el file, which the AUCTeX installations instructions report to be found inside the auctex directory (.emacs.d/elpa/auctex), to load AUCTeX at initialization time.

Any idea on how I can solve the issue?

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Please consider editing your profile name so that you don't have to sign with it since it will automatically appear in the lower right corner of your post. – hpesoj626 Oct 28 '12 at 11:04
You should add the lines (load "auctex.e" nil t t) and (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t) in your .emacs (I think in windows the initialization has another name) – Peter Breitfeld Oct 28 '12 at 13:06
@PeterBreitfeld: thanks, but that's the problem: I can't find /auctex.el/ anywhere on my disk. Other instruction on installing auctex on Windows don't refer to platform-specific scripts to be called in place of /auctex.el/. – user881430 Oct 28 '12 at 13:29
try looking in /../site-lisp/site-start/auctex.el. I have (require 'tex-site) in my .emacs. Hope it helps! – Dualinity Oct 28 '12 at 23:21
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When installing AUCTeX from ELPA, you must not add (load "auctex.el" nil t t) and (load "preview-latex.el" nil t t) to your init file. – Tassilo Horn Nov 1 '12 at 19:24
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