>I had an icon configured in VFP 7 with the following:
>
>Target: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7\vfp7.exe" D:\...\master.prg
>Start in: d:\...\ftp
>
>For VFP 8, I simply changed the target to include 8. However, the start in has no effect. It goes in
>the default directory of the VFP 8 setup and does not process the start in as defined at the icon
>level.
>
>Is there any consideration we need to take care of in VFP 8 in order to have that to work?

No repro here: I created a shortcut on the desktop, ran a file in my temp directory, and set it to start in the temp directory. After the program finished, it showed I was still in the right place.

Do you have anything in your config.fpw or the program you're running that might be setting the default directory improperly?