User`s guide
Desktop Tools and Development Environment
20-5
Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) security features restrict access to Program
Files. To accommodate this enhanced security model, the default startup directory in
MATLAB has been moved outside of Program Files.
These are the differences between the startup directory for R2007a and previous
releases:
• In previous releases, upon installation, the default startup directory was specified
in the Start in field of the Properties dialog box for the shortcut icon for MATLAB.
You could change the startup directory by replacing the pathname in that field. In
R2007a, if you want to specify the startup directory using the Start in field, you must
also remove from the Target field the -sd startup option and the pathname that
follows it.
• The default startup directory is no longer specific to a release. When you upgrade
from R2007a to a future release, files you created and saved in My Documents
\MATLAB (or Documents\MATLAB on Vista) will automatically be in the startup
directory for the new release. Previously, you had to move files you created and saved
in the Work folder for a release, for example, R2006a\Work, to the default startup
directory for the new release, for example, R2006b\Work.
• In previous releases, the default startup directory, Work, was shared by all users
running that installation of MATLAB. The default startup directory in R2007a, My
Documents\MATLAB (or Documents\MATLAB on Vista), provides each user with a
unique startup directory.
• In previous releases, MATLAB added the default startup directory, Work, to the
bottom of the search path. In R2007a, MATLAB adds the default startup directory, My
Documents\MATLAB (or Documents\MATLAB on the Windows Vista platform), to the
top of the search path. In R2007a, for consistency with previous releases, MATLAB
adds ...\MATLAB\R2007a\Work to the bottom of the search path. However, we
encourage you to stop using the Work folder because support for it might be removed
in a future release.
JVM for Windows Updated
MATLAB is now using Sun Microsystems Java (JVM) version 1.5.0_07 on Windows
platforms. Java is supplied with MATLAB for Windows platforms, so this change
requires no action on your part.