Just to say thanks to everyone for their help.

Installed the precompliled windows binary for aspell, plus the english
dictionary

added (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") to .emacs and added the
path to the aspell bin directory as an environmental variable.

Its all working now ;-)

Graham

On 15/01/07, Graham Smith <myotisone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.
>
> Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
> which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
> assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham
>