[Tex/LaTex] I installed TeXStudio and MiKTeX in the wrong order. How to do a clean install again

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So i am a noob at any kind of TeX. I quickly wanted to get up and running and downloaded protex.exe. I installed TeXStudio first, then MiKTeX, which is obviously wrong.

The problem is that when you uninstall TeXStudio and reinstall it, it still doesn't recognise MiKTeX.

I have tried to save a few pdf files with TeXStudio (just typing gibberish and saving it), but when I open them in adobe reader they are just corrupt. It does not give me an error however.

I have also opened some sample .tex files and tried to save them as pdf, to see if the program is working, and it also won't open the files in adobe reader.

How can I get TeXStudio to work, or am I missing something entirely?

(Windows 7 64 bit)

Best Answer

TeXstudio stores its settings in texstudio.ini which is located in %APPDATA%\texstudio\. If you delete the .ini while TeXstudio is closed, it will restart with default settings.