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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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] 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 ! [Reply or follow-up to this message] 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] 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" [Reply or follow-up to this message] 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" [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 7 Discussion Forum