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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? -- 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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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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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. |
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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. -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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