Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop puts a bunch of user-specific settings in C:\Users\MYUSER\Documents\Visual Studio 2013
. I don't like this as it messes with my home directory structure, so I have used the Tools > Options
dialog to move the majority of these options outside my Documents
folder.
However, I cannot find a way to move the StartPages
subdirectory, so C:\Users\MYUSER\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\StartPages
gets re-created every time I start Visual Studio. Annoying!
Can someone help me figure out how to tell Visual Studio to use a different folder?
This is what I have tried so far:
- Look through
Tools > Options
, including the uniquely unhelpfulEnvironment > Startup
options page. - This post, which relates to VS 2010.
- Use regedit to search for the following (in keys/values/data):
"My Documents\visual studio 2013\StartPages"
"Documents\visual studio 2013\StartPages"
"StartPages"
- Use Notepad++ to find-in-files for
"StartPages"
in%APPDATA%\Microsoft\WDExpress\12.0
(no results).