RE: reseting HOME directory

["Manning, Sid" <sidneym at qualcomm dot com>]

Try this:
 - Right click My Computer and goto Properties
 - Click on the "Advanced" Tab
 - At the bottom click Environment Variables
 - You will probably see HOME set someplace there and should be able to modify it.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of mcbenus
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:22 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: reseting HOME directory
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I found similar past posts here, but could not totally understand the
> answers.  For some reason, my HOME directory has changed one day from
> /home/USER to /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/USER (I guess imported
> from
> the windows settings).  At the same time a program I am running using
> cygwin
> started to much slower than before.  I don't know if the two problems are
> related, but first I would like to set my HOME directory back to
> /Home/USER.
> 
> I saw people referring to /etc/profile file, or the BASH_PROFILE file in
> my
> (original) home directory, but I could not understand what exactly I
> should
> write in them.  I would greatly appreciate your advices.  I do not master
> linux/cygwin, so if you try to answer, please consider that :)
> 
> Thanks,
> BK
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