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Since you lost your registry, perhaps HOME is not set.  Try visiting
~/.emacs and see if your file comes up.

"Harter, Douglas" <dharter@state.pa.us> writes:

> I am running Emacs on three machines: Sun Solaris Unix 8.0, Windows
> 2000, & Windows Me. All machines use the same .emacs. Only the
> Windows Me machine doesn't seem to executing my .emacs. The other
> machines my customizations work OK.
> 
> I lost my hard drive on that machine (I did keep my data, but lost
> the registry) & had to re-install everything. I tried running
> addpm.exe again, but it just seemed to hang.


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