how can I stop Windows setting HOME?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

anadem wrote:

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> I didn't mean that %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% are not set (not sure if you
> think that's what I meant) -- those two plus %HOME% all show up in
> System->Advanced->Environment Variables. The first two are normal Windows
> vars, and it's only %HOME% I'm trying to eliminate. 

Yep, that's what I meant too.

> If %HOME% is deleted from System->Advanced->Environment Variables it
> automagically reappears after a reboot, presumably courtesy of MKS but it's
> not obvious how it's restored nor how to get rid of it.

Hm, I hadn't noticed that myself but then again I'm not trying to run Cygwin
on the machines which have MKS (unfortunately).  Beyond uninstalling MKS, I
don't know what would help here either.  I'm not a MKS guru. ;-)



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