title: How to change Jupyter lab Working Directory
body: <p>I'm using the latest version of Jupyter lab on a Windows 10 64 bit machine inside Firefox. When I start the Jupyter lab (via cmd) the default working directory appears to be</p>
  <pre><code>c:/windows/system32
  </code></pre>
  <p>(i.e the folder tab on the left) which is a terrible place to be meddling with, at leat for me. I don't know why Jupyter lab starts there. I've installed Jupyter lab using cmd with administrator privileges. Is that why? Should I have it installed just for a user? (My machine has only one user;me).
  I tried changing the directory by using</p>
  <pre><code>jupyter notebook --generate-config
  </code></pre>
  <p>And inserted a path to my documents folder (in the path for kernels and notebooks line) , edited out the commentary (&quot;#&quot;). And when I restarted Jupyter lab nothing has changed. It shows the</p>
  <pre><code>c:/Windows/system32
  </code></pre>
  <p>as default directory which has so many windows folders and is too messy to deal with.
  Any solutions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance:)</p>