# How to customise the discover pane post installation in Tableau Desktop 2020.1

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2020-04-06
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-customise-the-discover-pane-post-installation-in-tableau-desktop-2020-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/eZXmXX5XfMQ

I show you how to change the Tableau Desktop Discover pane after installation by editing the Windows registry. Starting from a machine where the pane was previously set to Google.com, I modify the registry key to point at the Tableau blog instead.

## Key takeaways

- The Discover pane URL is controlled by a registry key under Local Machine > Software > Tableau, within the folder for your specific Tableau version
- You need admin rights and must use regedit, which is a dangerous area to edit, so only proceed if you know what you're doing
- If a Discover Pane key already exists you can right-click and Modify the value to a new URL; if not, create a new key in the version folder
- Closing the registry applies the change, and reopening Tableau shows the new URL in the Discover pane
- This approach lets computer admins push registry updates over the network to set the Discover pane across many machines at once

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-customise-the-discover-pane-post-installation-in-tableau-desktop-2020-1

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