> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:01:39 +0000
> Cc: jostein@kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> >  I suggest we instead use the user's profile folder. From an initial
> >  probe, this can be found in at least the following
> >  environment-variables on my Windows 10 test-machine: USERPROFILE (or
> >  by concatenating HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH ).
>
> I'll fix this.

Just to make this more complex: the Windows platform conventions frown
upon installing stuff in that directory; you are supposed to create a
subdirectory and install there.

And programs should not end up there, they should be under
%ProgramFiles% instead.  The user's directory is for files, not for
programs.