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.

Don’t know how it is in other localised Windows versions, but I really wonder who got the idea to call the directory with the user profiles “Dokumente und Einstellungen”. Even together with my short username “sts” I get the incredibly long path “C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\sts\Eigene Dateien” to get to my data. This nearly fills my complete mini buffer in ntemacs on find-file and moreover is awful to type compared to e.g. “/home/sts”. Some time ago I was looking for a tool like Linux’ “mount -o bind” to map directories to another directory in the filesystem and didn’t find it, although NTFS is supposed to support it. And in fact a tool exists: Junction Link Magic (thanks to http://weitz.de/win/ for the hint). Just great.