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By default, ArcGIS Explorer starts up with the default application configuration that includes all the built-in functionality and content from Esri. You can specify a different application configuration by:

- Setting the application configuration in ArcGIS Explorer
- Using a command line argument to set your application configuration
- Setting a registry value to specify your application configuration

##### Setting your application configuration in ArcGIS Explorer

To set your application configuration, click the Set Application Configuration button on the application menu.

In the Application Configuration dialog:

1. Click the Use the application configuration located at option.
2. Type the URL or path or browse to the application configuration file (.ncfg).
3. Click Update
.

When you change your application configuration you’ll be prompted to restart ArcGIS Explorer. The new application configuration won’t be used until you restart the application.

##### Using a command line argument to set your application configuration

You can specify the application configuration to use by specifying the /AppConfig command line argument. For example, the following command will start ArcGIS Explorer with the application configuration located at \\myserver\DOTApplication\DOTApplication.ncfg:

`E3.exe /AppConfig \\myserver\DOTApplication\DOTApplication.ncfg`

You can use the command line argument to create desktop shortcuts that start ArcGIS Explorer using a specific application configuration.

##### Setting a registry value to specify your application configuration

You can specify the application configuration to use by setting the AppConfig registry value to reference a specific application configuration:

1. Create the following registry key:

       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\Explorerversion_number\Settings

   (for example, 32 bit machine `[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\Explorer1700\Settings]`
   or 64 bit machine `[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ESRI\Explorer1700\Settings` )
2. Create a new string value called AppConfig and set it to a URL which references the application configuration. Note that file system paths (including UNC paths) are not supported.

It is not envisaged that users will commonly perform this setup manually. A more probable scenario is that administrators would create a registry file (.REG) which could be used to specify an application configuration while setting up a users machine.