How to teach emacs on Windows about ~user/ location?

Question

I am running Emacs v23.3.1 on a Windows 7 machine and would like Emacs to be able to resolve a ~user/ pathname in my start up files to a directory. It can resolve ~/ fine, I would like ~user/ to resolve likewise.

How can I teach Emacs how to resolve user's home directory?

Answer 1

you should change the registry entry as it says in the manual