Startup file with fill and stroke

in Illustrator CS on the Mac the default startup is fill white and stroke black at 1 pt.
I want to change it to fill none and stroke black at .5 pt.
How can I do this. Thanks

If indeed you are talking about CS (AI 11) then go to Applications>Adobe Illustrator>Presets>Startup-CMYK or RGB. Make an object with the desired characteristics and Option-drag the object to the default swatch (the left most one in the Swatches Palette). Save and restart AI. Open a new document and check the default. It should be as you want.

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