Emacs is not deleting the auto-save-list file when closing. This happens only if I set the auto-save-list file name with the auto-save-list-file-name variable instead of with the auto-save-list-file-prefix. In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2' Important settings: value of $LANG: PTG locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: global-undo-tree-mode: t undo-tree-mode: t cua-mode: t autopair-global-mode: t autopair-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t global-hl-line-mode: t global-linum-mode: t linum-mode: t tabbar-mwheel-mode: t tabbar-mode: t ido-everywhere: t recentf-mode: t savehist-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t