How to set default working directory in Emacs - troubleshooting

Question

I know this has been posted many times, but the solutions are not working for me. I\'ve tried the following solutions from this post (Changing the default folder in Emacs):<

Answer 1

Here's what I did, and worked with no problems:

setq default-directory "C:\\Path\\To\\Directory\\"

Saved and relaunched. I think in the windows env, you need to have double back-slashes.