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

I think you just need to use the right backslash (and escape them). This worked in my .emacs:

(setq default-directory "C:\windows")