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Hi Dan,

Thanks -- I knew about the "startup.m" method, but not the one changing the icon property. By the way, it worked very well on my Vista 64-bit.

"Dan Haeg" <haegd@msoe.edu> wrote in message <gg7hdd$64s$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Pinpress" <nothing@nothing.edu> wrote in message <gg6h8j$noq$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > I agree with Rune. Also I would prefer that there is way somewhere to start up matlab with a default current directory other than :
> > 
> > C:\Users\LOGINNAME\Documents\MATLAB
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm using windows xp and matlab 2008a. On my matlab icon properties I set the start in field to "D:\MATLAB M-files" this works for me. If you prefer you can crate a startup.m on your matlab path and cd to your favorite directory.
> 
> Dan