This is impossible. Poser 4 or 5 has never read the registry and, unless they totally reqrite it, never will. Therefore any changes DS makes to the registry will have no affect on Poser. Poser does not use initialisation files and, unless they totally rewrite it, never will. Therefore any changes DS makes to the registry will have no affect on Poser. Poser 5 does use and XML file to store locations and desktop settings so maybe, just maybe DS puts MAGIC code into that. Yours Unbelievingly NeilP