It was the pretest emacs (the very last one before the official release I
believe) - which is when I was first faced with the tool-bar sticking me in
the face. So I read up on how to get rid of it and was forced to put the
code in site-start.el - which I naturally put in the same directory as my
.emacs - not reading the manual carefully enough to realise it should not
find it there - but it did.
So I guess something changed since the last pretest and the official release
- because it was certainly working from ~! :-)

I may abandon using the Windows release of Emacs though as the road seems to
be for more and more Windows/mouse interaction being built in as "default".
It is annoying having to research how to turn the stuff off. I think I'll
have a closer look at the cygwin Emacs distrib.

Thanks anyway
Peter

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 3, 6:50 am, Peter Milliken <peter.milli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just loaded Emacs 23.1.1 for Windoze and now my site-lisp.el file
> nolonger
> > seems to run.
>
> > Just for the hell of it, I copied the default.el into c:/emacs/site-lisp
> -
> > and Emacs appears to run it from that location - which is NOT where I
> want
> > my personal customisations to reside!
> >
> > Nothing else has changed i.e. my HOME directory prior to starting Emacs
> is
> > still pointing to where the site-start.el/default.el files are located.
>
> Emacs has never automatically run site-lisp.el and default.el files
> from the HOME directory,  unless your HOME directory happens to be
> called site-lisp and is in the parent directory of your previous Emacs
> installation, I don't see how this could have worked without
> customizations in .emacs
>