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In Visual Studio 2010, the directory paths are per project settings (this differs from Visual Studio 2008 behavior). This means you need to set the search paths for every project when you make a new project. If you make many demo projects, this can be annoying. However, there is a way to make these settings permanent for a user. Under the Visual Studio menu, select View > Other Windows > Property Manager. Expand the property manager as in Figure 9, and double-click the Microsoft. Cpp. Win32, user item. You get a dialog box similar to the one in Figure 8, except that the paths you set here will persist across projects, so that you do not need to add them every time. More specifically, every new project you make will inherit the values set here.