Visual Studio 2008\Backup Files folder created when every new VS instance is opened

Question

I think I have something broken with the path that VS 2008 saves the backup files. Since few days, it creates a new \"Visual Studio 2008\" directory in the same folder that

Answer 1

Check here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0

Fixing the paths there should do the trick, take a special look at VisualStudioLocation which by default points to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2008