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Thank you, that worked just fine.  Actually, I had the HOME
environment variable set, but it was set to a Cygwin path
(/home/Administrator, instead of C:/cygwin/home/Administrator).
 - CB

maierh@myself.com wrote in message news:<upttlj1ii.fsf@myself.com>...
> ChristopherBalz@yahoo.com (Christopher Balz) writes:
> 
> > Running: Gnu Emacs version 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) 
> > (i.e., on Win2000)
> >
> > I figure that I must not be starting up Emacs in the most graceful way
> > possible, since I must explicitly set the 'user-init-file' variable in
> > order to be able to "save for future sessions" in the Emacs
> > Customizations user interface.
> >
> > Below please find: 
> >        A) Relevant Code Snippets from .emacs
> >        B) Entire .emacs file.
> >
> > Looking forward to your suggestions.  Thank you in advance and Long
> > Live Emacs.
> 
> Try to set the HOME environment variable under
> 
>    Current Settings - System - Advanced
> 
> Then emacs will find the file ~/.emacs.
> 
> Harald