for the administrative user, under which cygwin was installed, echo $HOME returns /home/Administrator.
This is not your problem. Please describe the problem in the message body and not only in the subject.
I need to set up cygwin so it does not preface the path with /cygdrive/c as this breaks our existing scripts.
You scripts most likely don't brake because of the /cygdrive/c/ prefix, they break because of the space in the pathname.
Solution: Link it under your cygwin tree and fix the appropriate passwd entries.
untested script to get the idea: mkdir /home for h in /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/*; do ln -s /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/$h /home/ done perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \ /etc/passwd
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