bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: "'yary'" <not.com@gmail.com>,  "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>,  
> 11612@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800
> 
> Given that in Windows 7 writing to c:\ requires administrative
> priviledges, perhaps we should be more strongly discouraging setting
> HOME to c:\ for users who are blindly copying obsolete instructions they
> find on the internet.

Maybe.  But the current situation was the necessary first step anyway,
because someone who sets HOME to C:\ at least did something deliberate
she might remember.

OTOH, I kinda gather that lots of people disable UAC on Windows 7, so
perhaps the issue is no more pressing now than it was with XP.