Hi Sean and thanks for the response.

My point is that using Object Explorer to connect works as you would expect (with colour coding from Registered Servers) unless that colour coding has been overridden, as mentioned in my earlier post.

So my thinking was that all would be well if I could remove all of the Object Explorer colour settings somehow. I could of course do this manually, but would rather just excise a few Registry keys (if that is where the settings reside) to do the job properly.

Thanks

Phil