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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
I like to place the programs listed in the start menu in a certain order.
Windows Vista will allow me to rearrange the order, however if I re-start the PC, install something new or install an update, the start menu order goes back to alphabetical. The setting for alphabetical listing remains un-ticked. I am running Windows Home Premium 32 Bit with all updates applied. Can someone help me get the start menu back in order? |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
Hi, I get the same problem, but with normal files in folders (ie The Games
Folder) I like to keep my games oragnised by "Last Played" and the icons size set to "Large", however it just resets it's self to any random size and it resets it's self back to alphabetical order. Also, the default size for new files I make (or any other file that I haven't already reset) of the file icons is small, however I prefer medium. How do I change the default sizes? |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
Are you talking about when you click All Programs in the start menu?
"Sabre24" wrote in message ... I like to place the programs listed in the start menu in a certain order. Windows Vista will allow me to rearrange the order, however if I re-start the PC, install something new or install an update, the start menu order goes back to alphabetical. The setting for alphabetical listing remains un-ticked. I am running Windows Home Premium 32 Bit with all updates applied. Can someone help me get the start menu back in order? |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
Yes, I am talking about the folder/program order after you click Start-All
Programs. Like Games, System Tools, Accessories, etc.... "DP" wrote: Are you talking about when you click All Programs in the start menu? "Sabre24" wrote in message ... I like to place the programs listed in the start menu in a certain order. Windows Vista will allow me to rearrange the order, however if I re-start the PC, install something new or install an update, the start menu order goes back to alphabetical. The setting for alphabetical listing remains un-ticked. I am running Windows Home Premium 32 Bit with all updates applied. Can someone help me get the start menu back in order? |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
Well, if you can't get your changes to stick, one thing you might try is renaming each item with a number in front of it. Like "Tools" becomes "1 Tools." The folder "Games" becomes "2 Games" etc. I haven't tried it with Vista but something like that used to work with XP and win9X. When it puts things in alphabetical order, is should start with the numbers first. So whatever you number with 1 (as in the "1 Tools" example) would be at the top of the list. Now, the problem with this is that it only works well up to the number 9. When you get to 10, 11, 12, etc, it may put all of those after the item listed as 1. So it would group the items as 1, 10, 11, 12, before it got to the item numbered 2, 3, etc. At least I think that's how it will work. Not the best solution to what you want, but at least your menu items are ordered the way you want them to be. "Sabre24" wrote in message ... Yes, I am talking about the folder/program order after you click Start-All Programs. Like Games, System Tools, Accessories, etc.... "DP" wrote: Are you talking about when you click All Programs in the start menu? "Sabre24" wrote in message ... I like to place the programs listed in the start menu in a certain order. Windows Vista will allow me to rearrange the order, however if I re-start the PC, install something new or install an update, the start menu order goes back to alphabetical. The setting for alphabetical listing remains un-ticked. I am running Windows Home Premium 32 Bit with all updates applied. Can someone help me get the start menu back in order? |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
Thanks for the suggestion DP. I appreciate your responses. "DP" wrote: Well, if you can't get your changes to stick, one thing you might try is renaming each item with a number in front of it. Like "Tools" becomes "1 Tools." The folder "Games" becomes "2 Games" etc. I haven't tried it with Vista but something like that used to work with XP and win9X. When it puts things in alphabetical order, is should start with the numbers first. So whatever you number with 1 (as in the "1 Tools" example) would be at the top of the list. Now, the problem with this is that it only works well up to the number 9. When you get to 10, 11, 12, etc, it may put all of those after the item listed as 1. So it would group the items as 1, 10, 11, 12, before it got to the item numbered 2, 3, etc. At least I think that's how it will work. Not the best solution to what you want, but at least your menu items are ordered the way you want them to be. "Sabre24" wrote in message ... Yes, I am talking about the folder/program order after you click Start-All Programs. Like Games, System Tools, Accessories, etc.... "DP" wrote: Are you talking about when you click All Programs in the start menu? "Sabre24" wrote in message ... I like to place the programs listed in the start menu in a certain order. Windows Vista will allow me to rearrange the order, however if I re-start the PC, install something new or install an update, the start menu order goes back to alphabetical. The setting for alphabetical listing remains un-ticked. I am running Windows Home Premium 32 Bit with all updates applied. Can someone help me get the start menu back in order? |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
"DP" wrote:
Well, if you can't get your changes to stick, one thing you might try is renaming each item with a number in front of it. Like "Tools" becomes "1 Tools." The folder "Games" becomes "2 Games" etc. I haven't tried it with Vista but something like that used to work with XP and win9X. When it puts things in alphabetical order, is should start with the numbers first. So whatever you number with 1 (as in the "1 Tools" example) would be at the top of the list. Now, the problem with this is that it only works well up to the number 9. When you get to 10, 11, 12, etc, it may put all of those after the item listed as 1. So it would group the items as 1, 10, 11, 12, before it got to the item numbered 2, 3, etc. At least I think that's how it will work. The default sort order in Vista is to treat numbers as numbers, not as strings of characters, so it shouldn't group things by the first digit. If all else fails, you could name them 01, 02, 03, etc. The new sort order drove me crazy until I figured out how to change it, since I was expecting things to be in string order. I think it first came in with XP. -- Ray (remove the Xs to reply) |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
"Ray" wrote in message ... "DP" wrote: Well, if you can't get your changes to stick, one thing you might try is renaming each item with a number in front of it. Like "Tools" becomes "1 Tools." The folder "Games" becomes "2 Games" etc. I haven't tried it with Vista but something like that used to work with XP and win9X. When it puts things in alphabetical order, is should start with the numbers first. So whatever you number with 1 (as in the "1 Tools" example) would be at the top of the list. Now, the problem with this is that it only works well up to the number 9. When you get to 10, 11, 12, etc, it may put all of those after the item listed as 1. So it would group the items as 1, 10, 11, 12, before it got to the item numbered 2, 3, etc. At least I think that's how it will work. The default sort order in Vista is to treat numbers as numbers, not as strings of characters, so it shouldn't group things by the first digit. If all else fails, you could name them 01, 02, 03, etc. Or, "a Tools," "b Games," "c Accessories." etc. |
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Start Menu Resets Back To Alphabetical Order
Hi, Sabre24.
A partial solution might be to "pin" your favorite programs to the Start menu. These will appear above the divider line in the left part of the Start menu. You can drag'n'drop these apps into the order that you like and they will stay in that order. Trouble is, the space for this area is limited, so you can't put very many items in it. You can use Start | Properties | Start Menu | Customize to indirectly manage the size of this area by changing the Number of recent programs to display, but you still probably won't want more than a dozen or so programs in your "pinned" list. On my 1280 x 1024 monitor, I have 5 programs pinned (E-mail, Internet, Windows Update, Notepad and Command Prompt) plus 15 in my recent programs list. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) "Sabre24" wrote in message ... I like to place the programs listed in the start menu in a certain order. Windows Vista will allow me to rearrange the order, however if I re-start the PC, install something new or install an update, the start menu order goes back to alphabetical. The setting for alphabetical listing remains un-ticked. I am running Windows Home Premium 32 Bit with all updates applied. Can someone help me get the start menu back in order? |
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