Did you open the NTUser.dat in your default user profile on the server and edit the key? If you want it for all users did you try the change user /install trick with no users on the server and making the change and then putting it back in change user /execute? Jim M <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Has anyone forced their published explorer to default to a list view when using mandatory profiles (or hybrid) ? I have populated HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams and subkeys but whenever i start explorer, it back to Large Icons. Anyone done this at all ? M