> I am launching emacs from an Icon (shortcut). There is > nothing in the in the Start in: field of the icon's properties.
Then put something there. ;-) Use the directory you want Emacs to consider the `default-directory' when it starts up. Here's what I use, as an example: 1. Target: C:\Emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe --debug-init "C:\my-startup-dired-dir" 2. Start in: C:\my-startup-dired-dir #1 tells Windows where the Emacs executable is; tells Emacs to enter the debugger if there is an error during startup; and tells Emacs to open Dired on my chosen directory. (Don't add the dir string if you don't want to start with Dired.) #2 tells Windows where to start Emacs, which amounts to telling Emacs what to use as the `default-directory'. In my case, I use the same dir that I open with Dired. HTH.
