Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

I see the problem: there is only one IDLE icon for all users, so you need the 
env var to customize for each user, which you cannot use. Staying with the 
python install directory, as before, should be better.  We never got any 
complaints about that.  But the new install locations are more problematical.

I have also thought of adding an new startup option, but it should only apply 
if IDLE is started with the ICON.  When started at the command line, it should 
start at the current directory of the console, as it does now, so '.' refers to 
that directory.  Ironically, a current directory of .../system32 would be a 
good indicator.  I need to see what is in sys.argv after the different start 
methods.

This issue is currently only for Windows. I don't know what happens on other 
systems or whether they could stand improvement.

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