re: Question about 'Why don't items in my Quick Launch remember their position?' Monday, January 19, 2009 at 5:33 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Asterek (3 messages posted) OK, guys, seems that I have finally found (thanks to suggestions found in this thread) a solution for my particular problem which is somehow connected to the Quick Launch Bar icons' sorting order. My problem was that sometimes, at very rare occasions, the icons on the QLB were loosing their sorting order which was very upsetting as I usually have 4 full-screen-wide lines of them groupped by area using a separator in form of a blank/empty icon. It usually took me quite a long time to return to the previous sorting some 150 icons. Today^H^H^H^H^H Tonight I finally found a way how to save the sorting order of the QLB icons for later restore in case of wreckage. 0. I presume that generally your QLB works as designed and I presume that more or less you understand what you are doing in Windows Saving the QLB look ==================== 1. Arrange the icons 2. Open the RegEdit 3. Export to QLB_OK.reg file the following Registry branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop 4. Wait for havoc which for sure will happen later or sooner Restoring the QLB look ======================= 5. Load the QLB_OK.reg file into the Registry (use "regedit.exe QLB_OK.reg" from a command line or just doubleclick the .reg file in the Windows Explorer) 6. Very important step - without it the saved sorting order will not be loaded!!! And if you do it wrong you may have a little trouble - open the Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del - click Task Manager), open the Processes tab, start typing explorer.exe, check if proper task has been chosen, klick End Process button, confirm the operation - don't close the Task Menager yet, click File menu, chose New Task, type explorer.exe and click OK. 7. Enjoy! :-) Written in response to: re: Question about 'Why don't items in my Quick Launch remember their position?' (Richy Roberts: Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 3:38 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Why don't items in my Quick Launch remember their position?' (Asterek: Monday, January 19, 2009 at 6:17 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Why don't items in my Quick Launch remember their position?' (Whitney Morgan: Sun, Dec 30, 2001, 4:26 pm) re: Question about 'Why don't items in my Quick Launch remember their position?' 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