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Background: I built an installer for my app, and all my dll's and content files are getting correctly copied to the C:\Program Files\MyCompany\MyApp directory. When I run my app from Visual Studio, everything works great. When I run the installed version of my app, however, I get a DirectoryNotFoundException . The problem seems to be with Environment.CurrentDirectory . I was expecting Environment.CurrentDirectory to be... "C:\\Program Files\\MyCompany\\MyApp" ...but it was actually... "C:\\Documents and Settings\\DanThMan" What's going on here? How do I solve this? Thanks. EDIT: Okay, hmm. This problem only occurs if I run the Start Menu shortcut. If I run MyApp.exe directly, everything is fine. EDIT 2: I think I've gotten to the bottom of this now. In my Installer (which is a Visual Studio SetupProject), the Start Menu shortcut has a property called WorkingFolder , which "Specifies the folder where the target application for the shortcut will be installed." I had accidentally set WorkingFolder to "MyCompany". It should be "Application Folder". Now that I have it set correctly, Environment.CurrentDirectory is once again working as expected. Thanks for all your help. EDIT 3: However, reading the warnings below, I have decided to go with the following as a replacement for Environment.CurrentDirectory : System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location);

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