As stated in previous entries, I do all of my development work inside of Virtual PC images. This has suited me quite well. One of the grumblings that I had with Virtual PC was that it did not remember your last used path, and always defaulted to \My Documents\My Virtual Machines.

In some scenarios this would be just fine. However, I store all of my VPC images on a large USB drive, so every time I want to load up a new VM or point to an existing VM, I always had to navigate to my external drive first.

Earlier today I was forwarded a tip that solves this problem. Set an environment variable (My Computer | Advanced | Environment Variables) called MyVirtualMachines with the path you wish to use (F:\vms, in my case).