diff --git a/src/main/resources/configuration/dependencycheck.properties b/src/main/resources/configuration/dependencycheck.properties
index 8ef8c686c..1c3ed25f7 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/configuration/dependencycheck.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/configuration/dependencycheck.properties
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ application.name=${pom.name}
 application.version=${pom.version}
 autoupdate=true
 
+#temp.directory defaults to System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")
+#temp.directory=[path to temp directory]
+
 # the path to the lucene index to store the cpe data
 cpe=data/cpe
 # the path to the cpe xml file