title: visual studio 2010: the application data folder for visual studio cannot be created
body: <p>I just installed visual studio 2010 on my win7 32 bit computer and i get the following message when I start it:</p>
  
  <p>"the application data folder for visual studio cannot be created"</p>
  
  <p>I had this same version of visual studio on my xp sp3 computer and it worked fine.
  I googled for various solutions but nothing worked.
  I tried to run:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and to edit the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders] AppData entry (but it was already okay). I tried to run as administrator.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any other fix to this problem?</p>
  
  <p>ps: after I installed visaul studio there was no desktop shortcut, the start menu folder was empty until I added premmisions for myself (I'm already admin...) and after that the start menu shortcit had no icon and didn't work so I had to run visual studion from the installation folders devenv.exe.</p>