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re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly
Friday, November 7, 2003 at 5:27 am
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Posted by daygain (1 messages posted)

Thanks Stone, I was enlightened by your discovery. An alternative to creating another shortcut link is to CUT all the icons in C:\Documents and Settings\FSTONE\Desktop\ and PASTE them over to C:\Documents and Settings\ALL USERS\Desktop\ and your desktop icons will be in their rightful alphabetical order.

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 9:00 pm, F Stone wrote:

>I think I've figured it out.  When the icons are alphabetized, the full path name 
>is used.  However we only see "name" of the icon which is the end of the path.
>
>The clue came from the statement that icons created by the user were in order.  
Here 
>are paths of one that has not yet been fixed.  There was also a clue I was slow 
to 
>pick up on - the shortcuts I created did not contain (2) at the end indicating there 
>were duplicated.  This suggested they were in different locations.  Here is the 
proof 
>--
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\FStone\Desktop\Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
>
>The first icon and those in "All Users" appeared first because "All Users" sorts 
>ahead of "FStone".
>
>Just my two cents worth.
>
>
>






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re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (F Stone: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 9:00 pm)


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re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (Marilyn: Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 2:51 pm)

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Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (Steve: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 1:58 pm)

re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (Blue: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 3:37 pm)

re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (Boxcuff: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 4:15 pm)

re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (BOHICA: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 5:12 pm)

re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (F Stone: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 9:00 pm)

re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (daygain: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 5:27 am)

re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (Marilyn: Tue, Dec 7, 2004, 2:51 pm)

re: Darn icons on the desk top don't alphabetize properly (Lassar: Tue, Sep 25, 2007, 4:02 pm)

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