I'm on Win7 64 and, no matter how many times I save elsewhere, Krita keeps wanting to save to my Program Files\Krita(x64)\bin directory. Is this configurable somewhere?

Thanks

I'm not sure if there is a way to specify that within Krita, but you could try tweaking your desktop shortcut for Krita.
Open the property of your Krita shortcut, then specify "Start in" directory other than Program Files\Krita(x64)\bin directory - then launch Krita using the shortcut.
From my testing that could change the default "save to" folder.

Looks like that will do the trick. Thanks for the tip

Huh... Krita should default to the Pictures folder, and, in fact, does that for me

The last two installs were done by unzipping the provided files. I ran the MSI for 2.9.4. Is there a reg key you would like me to look at?

same problem here all new files want to be saved to the bin folder, win8.1.