User`s guide

Desktop Tools and Development Environment
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Now on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms, the Import Wizard opens in the
existing session of MATLAB, and you use it to load the data into the workspace.
By default, in previous versions, double-clicking an M-file in Explorer opened it in the
MATLAB stand-alone Editor. For more information about that change, see “Stand-
Alone Editor No Longer Opens By Default; To Be Removed in a Future Version” on page
20-18.
Changes to Startup Directory (Folder) and Startup Options for MATLAB Application on Windows
The default startup directory for MATLAB on Microsoft Windows platforms is now My
Documents\MATLAB, or Documents\MATLAB on the Microsoft Windows Vista platform.
Upon startup, MATLAB automatically locates this MATLAB folder (creating it if it does
not exist), and adds it to the top of the search path. This utilizes standard folders on
Windows and Windows Vista platforms to provide a unique startup directory for each
user. As such, the folder is part of theWindows (or Windows Vista) user's profile, and will
be accessible when the user runs MATLAB from other machines, when the profile is set
up to roam.
In the Properties dialog box of the shortcut icon for MATLAB, the Target field includes
a new startup option -sd (for startup directory), followed by $documents\MATLAB,
where MATLAB interprets $documents as the My Documents folder for the current
user (or Documents for the Windows Vista platform). If the path for $documents is
specified in the configuration of the Windows environment via UNC pathname, MATLAB
automatically assigns it a mapped drive, creating one if necessary. The -sd startup
option overrides anything in the Start in field, which is now empty by default.
For more information, see Changing the Startup Directory.