Hi I am getting the following error when M-$ when the point is at a word which I want to spell check. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Error: No word lists can be found for the language \"en_US\".") signal(error ("Error: No word lists can be found for the language \"en_US\".")) error("%s" "Error: No word lists can be found for the language \"en_US\".") ispell-init-process() ispell-buffer-local-words() ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs() ispell-word(nil nil nil) call-interactively(ispell-word) any idea how to install an en word list to window xp for my aspell to work? I downloaded aspell-en-0.51-1.tar.bz2 onto my windows XP but was not able to unzip it, so I installed bzip2-1.0.5-setup.exe in order to unzip it but was not able to use it. I really did not expect all this pain in order to get some words spell checked, so I need some comfort. thanks