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> From: "Gary Weselle" <weselle_g@hotmain.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:02:18 -0800
> 
> I just installed emacs 21.3 on windows 2000 while logged in as admin, now I
> am a user and trying to save a file, I get "Creating directory: permission
> denied, c:/.emacs.d" well I want to save the file under my user/directory.
> What is the go with this?

Define an environment variable HOME that points to some other
directory, where you do have write access.