Optimize Tortoise SVN Cache Disk I/O

I've got a lot of background processes running and killing my disk performance with all the I/O they're doing.  One of the primary offenders is the TortoiseSVN cache that helps put the icon overlays in Explorer.  Several folks I know disabled the cache altogether, but I like the icons.

Rather than disable the cache, you can optimize the paths it looks at so it only actually looks at working copies and not your whole disk.  If you keep all of your working copies in specific known locations, this is a really simple thing to do.  For example, I keep all of my checked out code in one of three places - a "dev" folder I have, the "Visual Studio 2005" folder in "My Documents," and the "Visual Studio Projects" folder in "My Documents."

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