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Michel Chassey <mycuser@gmail.com> writes:

> Also setting an environement variable called HOME   =
> c:\path\to\my\preferred\etc. in My Computer system will enable emacs to find
> it just about anywhere on C:  ?

After setting HOME you can load .emacs via

 C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET

Note the ~ which represents "home"

-- 
Vagn Johansen