Change the default Home directory in Emacs on Windows
When you first install (rather extract) Emacs on Windows, your home directory, ~/, defaults to:
C:/Documents and Settings/Your Name/Application Data.
You may want to change this to some other convenient location. To do this, start by making a file called "site-start.el" in your emacs/site-lisp folder.
In it put this line:
(setenv "HOME" "whatever/your/desired/home/dir/is")
Move your .emacs customization file from the previous location to this new location and you are set.
C:/Documents and Settings/Your Name/Application Data.
You may want to change this to some other convenient location. To do this, start by making a file called "site-start.el" in your emacs/site-lisp folder.
In it put this line:
(setenv "HOME" "whatever/your/desired/home/dir/is")
Move your .emacs customization file from the previous location to this new location and you are set.
