re: I found the fix!!!!!!! Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 9:46 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mary (1 messages posted) I didn't have this problem till I started using thumbnails. (another annoyance to solve -- I have to set each folder for them) The sort order fixed itself for a few weeks, but started rearranging the files again. My start menu also grayed out the explore option. THANKS TIM!!! On Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 4:52 pm, tim wrote: >Thanks for the fix. > >I don't have the option 'Right-click the Start button and choose Explore', it's greyed >out on my Win98SE computer. >So, I ran Explorer normally and selected C: and then chose View/Arrange Icons/by >Name then I Control-clicked the X to quit Explorer. >This method worked equally as well as the Microsoft KB article. >It seems that it is the 'Control-click the X to quit Explorer' that is the the key >to this. >Control-clicking saves the choices made regardless of how you run Explorer or how >you make the choices. > >One other thing I noted was that it only saves the options for that particular hard >drive or partition. As I have several partitions and two drives, I had to do the >procedure above for *every* drive/partition. > >tim Written in response to: re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (tim: Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 4:52 pm) Responses to this message: re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (shytilwet: Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 4:22 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Eric Wenger: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 8:05 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Colin: Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 9:13 am) I found the fix!!!!!!! (Eric Wenger: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 1:04 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Alex Kidd: Thu, Apr 11, 2002, 9:39 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Kerri: Tue, May 21, 2002, 3:58 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Eve: Wed, Jun 19, 2002, 12:42 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Carolyn Lehmann: Sat, Jun 22, 2002, 4:09 am) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Lawrence: Sat, Aug 3, 2002, 8:41 am) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Porgie: Thu, Aug 22, 2002, 8:37 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (tim: Sun, Oct 6, 2002, 4:52 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Mary: Sun, Apr 23, 2006, 9:46 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (shytilwet: Tue, May 2, 2006, 4:22 am) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Frank: Thu, Nov 7, 2002, 6:49 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (ChuckC: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 9:46 am) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Patrice: Tue, Nov 26, 2002, 1:48 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Phil J.: Sun, Dec 29, 2002, 7:10 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (les: Tue, Jan 14, 2003, 8:19 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Linda Reinfeld: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 6:19 am) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Eb Glueck: Thu, Dec 18, 2003, 3:38 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Terry Smithwick: Sat, Mar 6, 2004, 10:47 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Sharon Boggs: Fri, Apr 9, 2004, 12:03 pm) some settings change... (Brian Person: Wed, Apr 21, 2004, 2:01 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (Jim: Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 7:48 pm) re: I found the fix!!!!!!! (MDM: Wed, Mar 16, 2005, 9:39 am) 20051201 thankyou (WAPTEK: Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 6:56 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Mike: Wed, Feb 20, 2002, 6:57 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Porgie: Thu, Aug 22, 2002, 8:29 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum