If you are trying to use the EmacsW32 package, a packaged NTEmacs with a nice installer and some patches like emacsclient support, and it doesn’t startup at all, consider to remove the registry entries in HKCU/Software/GNU/Emacs. If you have set some paths pointing to an old Emacs there, it will confuse EmacsW32 and make it give strange error messages in CMD.exe like “Cannot open load file: code-pages“. Cleaning the registry fiest can save your Sunday afternoon.