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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>> Chuck wrote:
> 
>>> [ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in
>>> "c:\documents and settings\userid". I wanted it in "c:\cygwin\home"
>>> where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want
>>> it cluttering up "documents and settings".
> 
>>  [ ... ]    If you must, you can also set HOME in your
>> Windows environment to the directory you want.  When Cygwin starts,
>> it will use this value to override all others set.
> 
>   Isn't the probably the underlying reason why the home dirs were created in
> documents and settings in the first place, i.e. does the machine already have
> HOME set in its environment variables?


Not necessarily.  Windows typically sets HOMEDIRVE and HOMEPATH but not HOME.
The doc-o-settings path is typically the same as these variables but can
also come from the domain server. In environments with domains, the home
directory is set by the domain and, I believe, the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get
set to the domain's designation on login.


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