.emacs file missing with emacsW32 (?)

[Quin Wills]

I've been using Emacs and XEmacs on and off for a few years now - mostly 
to run R (with ESS) and LaTeX - on both Windows XP and Ubuntu.

I installed the latest emacsW32 onto my Windows XP machine and am 
confused. I need to edit my .emacs file to allow ESS to run but can't 
find my .emacs file (yes, I can see hidden files and  have searched for 
_emacs too). In emacs when I search the HOME directory it takes me to 
"C:\Documents and Settings\Quin\Application Data" which has a  
".emacs.d" directory but no sight of my init file. Previously my .emacs 
file was just in "C:\"

Had a look about for help and in the FAQs but am not spotting anything 
useful. Where is my .emacs file? Yikes, sorry to be so dumb. Thanks in 
advance.


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