Running Lilypond on a PC with Windows - Question

[Linda Seltzer]

Dear Friends,

I downloaded Lilypond on my PC and installed it and this ran without any 
problems.

I received a message when trying to place it in Program Files, so I installed 
it in C: in a separate folder.

The online instructions in the tutorial say that the user's input file should 
have the extension .ly rather than .txt.  I created a score file with a .ly 
extension and opened and edited it with Notepad and saved it.  

The instructions said to double click on the icon of the score file and the 
lilypond output would appear in .pdf form.  This does not occur, because the 
file properties say to open with Notepad and that the type of file is a text 
file.  I changed Open With to Lilypond rather than Notepad, but I couldn't see 
how to change the type from text file to Lilypond file.  Also, changing Open 
With caused the system to rename the file as filename.ly.txt, which it said 
wasn't a valid file name.

Can someone suggest the correct way to create and process the Lilypond file?

Thank you for any information.

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