Problem installing Auto-Complete plugin in Emacs

Question

I downloaded Auto-Complete from here: http://github.com/m2ym/auto-complete/downloads, I placed all the files from the .zip file in my load-path (C:\...Application Data\.emacs.d\plugins\auto-complete-1.0), and added the following to my .emacs:

;; load auto complete
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/plugins/auto-complete-1.0")
(require 'auto-complete)
(global-auto-complete-mode t)

but an error message shows up:

.emacs:53:1:Error: Cannot open load file: auto-complete

Answer 1

Are you sure that ~ really expands to C:\...Application Data? Do C-x d ~ RET to be sure.