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       href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.</p>
 
     <p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>.  The
-      Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.  To run this
-      command, the install directory must be in your search path.</p>
-
-    <h2>Setting your search path temporarily</h2>
-
-    <p>To set your search path temporarily, type the following into a
-      command prompt window:</p>
-
-    <pre>
-set PATH=C:\Mercurial;%PATH%
-</pre>
-
-    <h2>Setting your search path permanently</h2>
-
-    <p>To set your search path permanently, perform the following
-      steps.  These instructions are for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.</p>
-
-    <ol>
-      <li>Open the Control Panel.  Under Windows XP, select the
-	"Classic View".</li>
-
-      <li>Double-click on the "System" control panel.</li>
-
-      <li>Click on the "Advanced" tab.</li>
-
-      <li>Click on "Environment Variables".  You'll find this near the
-	bottom of the window.</li>
-
-      <li>Under "System variables", you will see "Path".  Double-click
-	it.</li>
-
-      <li>Edit "Variable value".  Each path element is separated by a
-	semicolon (";") character.  Append a semicolon to the end of the
-	list, followed by the path where you installed Mercurial
-	(e.g. <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>).</li>
-
-      <li>Click on the various "OK" buttons until you've completely
-	exited from the System control panel.</li>
-
-      <li>Log out and log back in, or restart your system.</li>
-
-      <li>The next time you run the Windows command prompt, you will be
-	able to run the <tt>hg</tt> command without any special
-	help.</li>
-    </ol>
+      Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.</p>
 
     <h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1>