I have set up a new development PC with Windows 8. It has a small SSD system drive (C:) and a large RAID drive (E:). I have configured Windows so that the Libraries (My Documents, etc.) are all on the RAID drive. When I open My Documents in Windows, it takes me to the correct location (E:\Users\[user]\Documents). I would have assumed then that Visual Studio (and for that matter any Windows application, e.g. SQL Management Studio) would use the default My Documents folder, but they both insist on creating the My Documents folders on C:\Users\[user]\Documents...
Is there an easy way to tell them to use the My Documents folder, or do I need to configure them manually? Is there something else I need to do in Windows to get all Windows applications that use My Documents to use the correct location?
Alternatively, is there a better way to do this? What I want is a fast booting system (Windows, page files, etc. on SSD) with all data on the RAID drive. The contents of drive C should rarely change, so that a monthly image backup (after patch Tuesdays) would allow me to quickly restore the system if drive C crashes. The RAID drive gets daily incremental backups, and of course all projects are under source control.
Davesemm