How Do You Stop An Application Creating A Folder On Startup......??

Hi,
I have an application loaded on my windows XP machine that does
something that frustrates me. Upon starting the application it creates
a "new folder" under "My Documents", this is the location of the folder
that the application will store all files that I create. Once the
application has started I have the option under "preferences" to change
the location for these files, the problem is that it still creates this
"default folder" under "My Documents" even though it no longer writes
into it (i.e. it uses the new location I created under 'preferences').

My question is simply - How do I stop this action ?

I have tried scanning thru the registry looking for the path "F:\My
Documents\Video capture" as this is the folder it creates but I cannot
see it, I can see in the registry the new path I created from within
the application.

many thanks, Mark.

.

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