I struggled with Detals view too. Use this in your cmdlines.txt which runs at T-12. Detail view will be enabled for all users. Look here for more help with importing settings for all users. Thanks to everyone. ;Detail mode in all folder [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] "Settings"=hex:09,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,77,7e,13,73,35,cf,11,ae,\ 69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,43,00,00,00