config file

[Mike Leone]

Derek Atkins had this to say:
> Hi,
> 
> Jason Dunham <jwdunham at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm trying to make a custom report in GnuCash 2.2.9 running on Windows 7.
>>  According to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports it says
>>
>> In your home directory, edit ~/.gnucash/config.user to add a line of the
>> form:
>>
>>
>>     (load-from-path "/path/to/my/personal/report.scm")
>>
>>
>> However, I can't find a config.user file in any of the Windows user
>> directories like C:\Users\jdunham\.gnucash
>> or C:\Users\jdunham\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\gnucash
>>
>> There is a hierarchical set of "%gconf.xml" files
>> in C:\Users\jdunham\.gconf\apps\gnucash, but I didn't see anything directly
>> relevant to the custom reports.
>>
>> I tried making a new config.user file with the above line (with the correct
>> path), and I dropped it in both  C:\Users\jdunham\.gnucash
>> and
>> C:\Users\jdunham\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\gnucash
>> but it didn't cause the my modified custom report to show up. Not too
>> surprising since I was just guessing.
>>
>> Does anyone know where I should find or create this file?  Are there any
>> other tricks to using Custom Reports under Windows?
> 
> I'm afraid I don't know where %HOME% would be on Windows..  

Not sure about Win7, but on WinXP, there is no %HOME% environmental 
variable, but there is USERPROFILE ...

 >SET
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\leonem

And the "My Documents" and "My Pictures" are beneath that folder 
structure. ("My Documents" is actually the equivalent [more or less] of 
a soft link in Linux, so it actually points to "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents")