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  #1  
Old February 4th 19, 06:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
David E. Ross[_2_]
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Default Toolbar Problem

I have no shortcuts to applications on my desktop. Instead, I created a
toolbar named Applications on the taskbar some years ago. I arraged the
shortcuts to be in a specific order, not in the folder named
Applications but in the actual toolbar. This worked fine until last
night.

All of a sudden, the items in the toolbar are sorted alphabetically. If
I rearrange the items the way I want them, that persists only until I
reboot, after which they are again alphabetical.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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through any forests.

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Old February 4th 19, 07:12 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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Default Toolbar Problem

David E. Ross wrote:
I have no shortcuts to applications on my desktop. Instead, I created a
toolbar named Applications on the taskbar some years ago. I arraged the
shortcuts to be in a specific order, not in the folder named
Applications but in the actual toolbar. This worked fine until last
night.

All of a sudden, the items in the toolbar are sorted alphabetically. If
I rearrange the items the way I want them, that persists only until I
reboot, after which they are again alphabetical.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


As a last resort, you always have System Restore available to you.


  #3  
Old February 4th 19, 08:21 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Toolbar Problem

"David E. Ross" wrote

| All of a sudden, the items in the toolbar are sorted alphabetically. If
| I rearrange the items the way I want them, that persists only until I
| reboot, after which they are again alphabetical.
|

I know this isn't really the question, but I wonder
if creating a Quick Launch toolbar would fix it. I guess
the question is whether QL in Win7 is still an official
folder or just another name, like Applications. I use a
QL toolbar, but I don't use Win7 enough to notice
whether it might sometimes lose its order.


  #4  
Old February 4th 19, 10:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Toolbar Problem

David E. Ross wrote:
I have no shortcuts to applications on my desktop. Instead, I created a
toolbar named Applications on the taskbar some years ago. I arraged the
shortcuts to be in a specific order, not in the folder named
Applications but in the actual toolbar. This worked fine until last
night.

All of a sudden, the items in the toolbar are sorted alphabetically. If
I rearrange the items the way I want them, that persists only until I
reboot, after which they are again alphabetical.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


How about, from Command Prompt, you remove the desktop.ini from the folder ?

Sometimes, a "folder", it doesn't pay to visit there with File Explorer,
as Explorer will "intuit" folder function and plop an inappropriate
desktop.ini for customization.

That leaves the question of "how you arrange things in your toolbar".
If it involved File Explorer, there could be shenanigans again.

cd /d C:\some\path\to\toolbar\stuff
dir # verify desktop.ini is there
del desktop.ini #

If the path happens to be "something you don't own",
the solution will require more effort.

HTH,
Paul
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Old February 5th 19, 02:07 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
David E. Ross[_2_]
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Default SOLVED Toolbar Problem

On 2/4/2019 9:04 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
I have no shortcuts to applications on my desktop. Instead, I created a
toolbar named Applications on the taskbar some years ago. I arraged the
shortcuts to be in a specific order, not in the folder named
Applications but in the actual toolbar. This worked fine until last
night.

All of a sudden, the items in the toolbar are sorted alphabetically. If
I rearrange the items the way I want them, that persists only until I
reboot, after which they are again alphabetical.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


I used a brute-force method to fix this.

For the Application folder, I set [View Sort by Date] and [View
Sort by Descending]; somehow it had become [View Sort by Name].
Then I used File Attribute Changer (BulkFileChanger.exe) from Nirsoft --
http://www.nirsoft.net/ -- to change the dates on the items in the
folder to reflect the order I wanted.

That still placed actual sub-folders in Applications at the top of the
list despite later dates than some of the non-folder items. To fix
that, I selected Applications on the taskbar and manually dragged the
folders to where I wanted them.

All this was tedious. I still do not know how [View Sort by Name]
became the sort setting for the folder.

--
David E. Ross

Trump again proves he is a major source of fake news. He wants
to cut off disaster funds to repair the damage caused by the
Woolsey Fire in southern California because he claims the state
fails to manage its forests properly. The Woolsey Fire was NOT
a forest fire. Starting in an industrial tract, it did not burn
through any forests.

See http://www.rossde.com/fire.html.
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Old February 5th 19, 02:07 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
pyotr filipivich
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Default Toolbar Problem

"David E. Ross" on Mon, 4 Feb 2019 09:04:51
-0800 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
I have no shortcuts to applications on my desktop. Instead, I created a
toolbar named Applications on the taskbar some years ago. I arraged the
shortcuts to be in a specific order, not in the folder named
Applications but in the actual toolbar. This worked fine until last
night.

All of a sudden, the items in the toolbar are sorted alphabetically. If
I rearrange the items the way I want them, that persists only until I
reboot, after which they are again alphabetical.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


What worked for me was
%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

add a number to each shortcut eg:
01_name
02_mail
03_abelard
....
10_show desktop
11_Access

I leading zeros because otherwise, MS will sort
1_name
10_show desktop
11_access
2_mail
usw.

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  #7  
Old February 6th 19, 11:29 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
David E. Ross[_2_]
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Default SOLVED Toolbar Problem

On 2/4/2019 5:07 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 2/4/2019 9:04 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
I have no shortcuts to applications on my desktop. Instead, I created a
toolbar named Applications on the taskbar some years ago. I arraged the
shortcuts to be in a specific order, not in the folder named
Applications but in the actual toolbar. This worked fine until last
night.

All of a sudden, the items in the toolbar are sorted alphabetically. If
I rearrange the items the way I want them, that persists only until I
reboot, after which they are again alphabetical.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


I used a brute-force method to fix this.

For the Application folder, I set [View Sort by Date] and [View
Sort by Descending]; somehow it had become [View Sort by Name].
Then I used File Attribute Changer (BulkFileChanger.exe) from Nirsoft --
http://www.nirsoft.net/ -- to change the dates on the items in the
folder to reflect the order I wanted.

That still placed actual sub-folders in Applications at the top of the
list despite later dates than some of the non-folder items. To fix
that, I selected Applications on the taskbar and manually dragged the
folders to where I wanted them.

All this was tedious. I still do not know how [View Sort by Name]
became the sort setting for the folder.


Since fixing that problem, I noticed that folders where contents had
previously been sorted by date are now being sorted alphabetically. Has
anyone else seen this? Does anyone know why this is happening?

--
David E. Ross

Trump again proves he is a major source of fake news. He wants
to cut off disaster funds to repair the damage caused by the
Woolsey Fire in southern California because he claims the state
fails to manage its forests properly. The Woolsey Fire was NOT
a forest fire. Starting in an industrial tract, it did not burn
through any forests.

See http://www.rossde.com/fire.html.
  #8  
Old February 6th 19, 11:35 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default SOLVED Toolbar Problem

On 06/02/2019 22:29, David E. Ross wrote:
Does anyone know why this is happening?


Yes I know but you are too stupid to understand it.



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