Andy Koppe wrote: > I'd guess that emacs has set a system-wide HOME environment variable. > That would take precedence over the setting in Cygwin's /etc/passwd. > Check under System Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables. > (That's where they are in XP anyway.) >> Andy, you were right! HOME was set to the Emacs folder. I replaced it with the directory I wanted as my Cygwin home folder and restarted my OS. Now /home/helvio/ is my new Cygwin home! Thank you a lot! Helvio -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple