Was recently getting my build enviornment back up and running and realized I haven't used many third party libs on Windows, and never when I was running VS (Used to be diehard Code::Blocks). I am curious how the majority of you organize your third party libs.

On my linux systems usually they installed to the same area that gcc/g++ had it's includes/libs but on windows it seems that is a frowned on practice (to taint your compiler's default includes/libs) so I was thinking I may just make their own folders under an includes/libs directory on the root of my music/videos/storage/development drive.

I mainly interested in Windows solutions, but other OS's can chime in as well .