[PRL] My emacs 22 works without cygwin, but not with it

[Mitchell Wand]

On my systems-managed Windows XP machine in 326WVH, I installed my own copy
of Cygwin in c:\cygwin .

This works just fine:  with emacs 21.3, I can say M-x grep and it quietly
finds the cygwin grep and does the right thing. (I presume I did something
to put the cygwin binaries in the path, but I've forgotten just what it
was.)

Now I installed a copy of emacs 22.1 (GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (
i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE).

If I rename c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin.disabled, emacs starts up just fine.

However, if I keep c:\cygwin, then the process displays a window but then
hangs showing an hourglass, and I have to kill it (it does, however, respond
to the icons in the windows frame, including the "x", so I don't need Task
Manager to kill it).

I have emacs 22 and cygwin installed on both my other machines (another Dell
desktop at home and my laptop), both running Windows XP, and they run like a
charm.

Anybody got any ideas (other than "get a mac")?

--Mitch
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