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Control Panel Sort?
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Posted by Robert C (89 messages posted)

Now I have CP in Small Icon view. Is there a way to sort the applets in alphabetical order? Thanks.

Robert Clark

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re: Control Panel Sort?
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted)

I like to expand the Control Panel, as a menu from the Start Menu. http://malektips.com/windows-7-control-panel-expand-start-menu.html

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re: Control Panel Sort?
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 9:41 am
Posted by MartinM (7549 messages posted)

Change to Details view, sort the way you want, then revert to Small Icons. Works for me !

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re: Control Panel Sort?
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Posted by Robert C (89 messages posted)

Ahhh that would do it but those options are greyed out. I have not yet found what needs to be turned off there to enable this.

Robert Clark

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re: Control Panel Sort?
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Posted by ReliancePC (1 messages posted)

The left to right ordering in the W7 Control Panel is excruciatingly annoying. I looked around for a W7 tweaking tool that might present a different CP view and didn't see anything.

So, I put together a folder of shortcuts of W7 CP items, which can in fact be ordered any way one likes, since it's just an ordinary folder. I set the "Comment" fields of the shortcuts to match the roll-over text of the actual Control Panel items, so when the folder Comment column is enabled, the list of shortcuts look a lot like the XP/Vista CP details view.

This folder of W7 shortcuts can be downloaded here:

W7 CP Shortcuts Folder Download

The downloaded file is a self-extracting 7z bundle that outputs the folder "W7 ListView Control Panel"

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re: Control Panel Sort?
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Posted by Robert C (89 messages posted)

I have done similar in XP, dont know why I did not think of it here, Thanks for sharing this, will try it later on.

Robert Clark


On Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 3:42 pm, ReliancePC wrote:
>The left to right ordering in the W7 Control Panel is excruciatingly annoying. I
>looked around for a W7 tweaking tool that might present a different CP view and didn't
>see anything.
>


>So, I put together a folder of shortcuts of W7 CP items, which can in fact be ordered
>any way one likes, since it's just an ordinary folder. I set the "Comment" fields
>of the shortcuts to match the roll-over text of the actual Control Panel items, so
>when the folder Comment column is enabled, the list of shortcuts look a lot like
>the XP/Vista CP details view.
>


>This folder of W7 shortcuts can be downloaded here:
>


>W7
>CP Shortcuts Folder Download

>


>The downloaded file is a self-extracting 7z bundle that outputs the folder "W7 ListView
>Control Panel"

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