How to change the Drafts and Recent Posts folder in Windows Live Writer 2011

Windows Live Writer is a fantastic offline blogging tool with a WYSIWYG editor. It interfaces with just about any blog service [Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, etc.] If you're a blogger you'll find this tool incredibly helpful- and it's refreshingly free from Microsoft.

One of the things that’s a hindrance to the application; it doesn’t let you choose where you want to put your drafts and recent posts.

But ah-ha! Seems after years of asking, there’s a registry hack for Windows Live Writer that’ll allow you to save your Drafts and Recent posts anywhere you’d like you…

Two days ago the information was offered up by one of the Windows Live Writer dev team in the support forum; Will Duff.

Here’s the reference link to the support forum where he made the post…

http://windowslivehelp.com/thread.aspx?threadid=22ad4735-6d12-4a9a-86e8-8e94c328be23

Why does Windows Live Writer crash?!

One of the ubiquitous questions in the Windows Live Writer support forum is ‘why does Windows Live Writer crash?’ or ‘why does Windows Live Writer not want to start?’ and these are valid and good questions… and the forum techs don’t normally have a good answer; it’s very frustrating to users…

It never seems to amaze me on the level that Microsoft creates and distributes these applications; and they can’t provide answers as to why they don’t work— if anyone should understand why they wouldn’t Microsoft should know…

So, back to Windows Live Writer and it not starting or crashing.