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> From: Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl>
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:35:05 +0200
> 
> It is Emacs 22. I could take it of from my usb-stick and put it in C
> \temp\emacs. (Temp is never cleared -why call it temp then?- so that
> works.) But Emacs wants to write to C:\.emacs and that is not allowed. I
> but something in C:\temp\emacs and load it with load-library. Not perfect,
> but it will not get better I am afraid.

Why can't you have an autorun file on the stick that sets HOME to
point to the stick drive?  Then you could have your .emacs on the
stick as well.