Template store path is invalid. Please make sure it exists or can be created: Unexpected path [path]

Question

I get this on my work machine (Win7 64bit), and this happens every time I open VS2010, and this is what I've done so far: 1. set folder properties (projects, project templates and item templates) from Import & export settings. 2. set projects, project templates and item templates paths from Options/Projects & Solutions. 3. found and manually set registry value that points to the above properties.

so every time I close VS 2010, nothing seems to save and I get the above error again and I find all values that I have set back to where it was.

Answer 1

I began getting this error after installing TFS Power Tools, and it looked to be related to that rather than to VS2010 itself.

I fixed it by going to Tools->Options, expanding Team Foundation Server Power Tools, clicking Work Item Template, and setting the default template store path to a path of my choice.

Once I saved that the message went away and I was able to start up my IDE unharassed.