<p>Is there any way to prevent Visual Studio from creating a VSMacros80 folder in my default project directory?</p>

[{'answer_id': 70505, 'author': 'xsl', 'author_id': 11387, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11387', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I could not find the previous thread, because I was searching for "vsmacros" instead of "vsmacros80".</p>\n\n<p>There are currently 5 different entries in <code>Tools-&gt;Options-&gt;Addin/Macro Security</code></p>\n\n<pre><code>%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\MsEnvShared\\Addins\n%APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\MsEnvShared\\Addins\n%VSAPPDATA%\\Addins\n%VSCOMMONAPPDATA%\\Addins\n%VSMYDOCUMENTS%\\Addins\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Can you tell me which one I have to delete?</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 70752, 'author': 'Biri', 'author_id': 968, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/968', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Sorry, I was wrong. This directory will allways be created. You can only set it's path in the Options/Projects and Solutions/General screen in the Projects location.</p>\n\n<p>But be careful, because it also means that your standard project directory will be this directory. You cannot avoid VS to create this directory.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 71150, 'author': 'xsl', 'author_id': 11387, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11387', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I just found it out myself: If you add a trailing backslash to the <em>Project Folder</em> setting e.g. changing it from <code>C:\\dev</code> to <code>C:\\dev\\</code>, the <code>VSMacros80</code> directory will no longer be created. </p>\n\n<p>I tested it with Visual Studio 2005 SP1, with all windows updates installed.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4258199, 'author': 'Rex the Strange', 'author_id': 462018, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/462018', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Mark the file as 'hidden.' Visual Studio won't mess with the visibility setting (or, at least, it didn't when I did it in 2010).</p>\n"}]
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