Dear Experts, I've previously used SPM on windows xp xcomputer. I've not a laptop with windows 8. I've installed matlab 2012 b and added SPM 8 in the matlab path. however, when I try to open it, it give me the following error: Initialising SPM...Error using fileparts Too many output arguments. Error in cfg_util>local_initapps (line 1144) [p n e v] = fileparts(appcfgs{k}); Error in cfg_util (line 518) local_initapps; Error in spm_jobman (line 148) cfg_util('initcfg'); % This must be the first call to cfg_util Error in spm (line 343) spm_jobman('initcfg'); have you got some suggestions? thank you best wishes Cristina Scarpazza