Thanks for the quick response. That's the key I've been looking at. Here's my snip from my tweaks.reg: ;Status bar, list view for Explorer [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] "Settings"=hex:09,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,e0,a5,1f,0e,73,35,cf,11,ae,\ 69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,43,00,00,00 The only difference I notice is the last 04 entry is different (8 from the end). I copied this tweak straight from this site. Unforunately it doesn't seem to "stick". I can change the view to "list", hit apply to all folders, but a lot of the times it will not carry to all the folders. Sometimes the view stays, sometimes it doesn't. Really annoying... I have attached my tweaks.reg file for all to inspect. Maybe another tweak is interfering with this one? tweaks.zip