title: Missing maven .m2 folder
body: <p>AFAIK maven does not have an installer for Windows, you simply unzip it wherever you like, as explained <a href="http://maven.apache.org/download.html" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  
  <p>However in many places there are references to a <code>.m2</code> folder under the user folder (in Win7 I would guess it to be by default at <code>C:\Users\.m2</code>. Alas I do not have that folder. Is there some command to create this folder? Am I missing something basic?</p>