On Windows 10 PC: 1. Download latest emacs from https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html Windows 2. Unzip it at C:/Users/UserName/Downloads/ 3. Change properties of .tex or .txt file so that double-click will open it with C:/Users/UserName/Downloads/emacs-xxxxx/bin/runemacs.exe 4. Find and download hunspell-1.3.2-3-w32-bin.zip from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ 5. Unzip hunspell-1.3.2-3-w32-bin.zip at C:/Users/UserName/Downloads/ 6. Add the following to C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\.emacs (add-to-list 'exec-path "C:/Users/UserName/Downloads/hunspell-1.3.2-3-w32-bin/bin/") (setq ispell-program-name "hunspell") (setq ispell-really-hunspell t) Note that you can move emacs and hunspell to other place than Downloads, and change corresponding settings.