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.

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 * If the answer is the right solution, please click " Accept Answer " and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment". Note: Please follow the steps in our <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fanswers%2Farticles%2F67444%2Femail-notifications.html&data=05%7C01%7Cv-anxiu%40microsoft.com%7Cfbafa63a6d244bc7b02308dab02dffeb%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638016009146709048%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fQwgaRxLofINtfGCjYbP6ygI0lVyksSFgHo7VnshDEY%3D&reserved=0" rel="ugc nofollow">documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

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

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 28,571 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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Slobodan Krejaković 41 Reputation points

2022-11-11T11:09:34.733+00:00

@Anna Xiu-MSFT thanks a lot!
And this value is not in the regular windows registry? I was not able to find it in the regedit by searching for VisualStudioLocation?

RLWA32 44,931 Reputation points

2022-11-11T11:21:41.057+00:00

VS2022 uses a private registry hive that is not available to regedit.

Slobodan Krejaković 41 Reputation points

2022-11-11T17:28:26.33+00:00

@Anna Xiu-MSFT thanks again, would you perhaps also know the similar registry solution for the folder "SQL Server Management Studio"?
I have exactly the same problem with SQL Server Management Studio :)

Anna Xiu-MSFT 28,571 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-11-17T09:58:00.513+00:00

Sorry for my delay reply! The SQL Server Management Studio is out of my scope. You can ask a new question and add “sql-server-general” tag for better support.
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