Visual Studio 2022 keeps re-creating folder in My Documents, although I changed Locations of Project folders

Slobodan Krejaković 36 Reputation points
2022-11-10T18:03:26.457+00:00

I changed the Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Locations folder to my custom D drive locations and then I deleted the folder "Visual Studio 2022" from My Documents. However, Visual Studio keeps re-creating an empty folder "Visual Studio 2022" in the My Documents location whenever I start VS.

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  1. Anna Xiu-MSFT 25,626 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-11-11T06:23:51.953+00:00

    Hi @SlobodanKrejakovi-0266 ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

    It has a default registry key (VisualStudioLocation) and you need to change its default location by using vsregedit.exe.

    Please close all running VS instances and open the Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022 to run the following command:
    vsregedit set local HKCU "" VisualStudioLocation string "D:\xxx"

    Sincerely,
    Anna
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