This seems like a relatively common problem, but all of the answers I have seen online boiled down to the user having done something tricky with their PATH environment, which I have not modified.
I just reinstalled TeXworks 0.6.5, chose all the default settings, and when I attempt to compile any document I get the following error message:
("pdfLaTeX not properly configured")
What can I try here?
Here are my typesetting settings:
As you can see, I have a few other programs that are trying to interface with TeXworks, although I never configured them to do so; could they be causing the issue?
Best Answer
Turns out I had installed only TeXworks when what I meant to install was the whole MikTeX distribution. Like many casual users, I never interact with anything other than TeXworks, so after a system restore, that was the name I remembered and the only thing I installed.
Downloading MikTeX from here and installing it solved the issue.