emacs windows load path

[Chris]

With emacs 21 on Windows, is there a way to get the load-path behavior to 
work as it does in Linux. Specifically, I have this in my linux .emacs:


;; Add Personal lisp files to load path
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp")


Which gets all the files in ~/elisp and all subdirectories. On Windows, 
however, it seems that I have to specifically add every subdirectory in my 
~/elisp directory or else Emacs doesn't see them. Why?