I have a question about Why don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?:

Worse, they remember the "wrong" ones. For reasons I have not been able to figure out, one too many programs has decided that it should not sort alphabetically, as my settings dictate, but should jump to the front of the line. I want to do two things. First, track down the idiots who did this and kill them, painfully. Second, kill the problem. I'm posting here because this is a sub-set of explorer and caused by some sort of explorer mess. Thanks.

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Hangem and hangem high!!!!


On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 1:58 pm, Steve wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>don't folders remember their position, sort order, or icon size?:

>
>Worse, they remember the "wrong" ones. For reasons I have not been able to figure
>out, one too many programs has decided that it should not sort alphabetically, as
>my settings dictate, but should jump to the front of the line.
>
>I want to do two things.
>
>First, track down the idiots who did this and kill them, painfully.
>
>Second, kill the problem.
>
>I'm posting here because this is a sub-set of explorer and caused by some sort of
>explorer mess.
>
>Thanks.
>
>

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check out the right click button on your mouse

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I did that -- it is how I initiated the alphabetize. The easiest solution is just to copy the link and create a new short-cut. Ones I create alphabetize correctly.


On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 4:15 pm, Boxcuff wrote:
>
>check out the right click button on your mouse

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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.







On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 5:12 pm, Steve wrote:
>
>I did that -- it is how I initiated the alphabetize.
>
>The easiest solution is just to copy the link and create a new short-cut.  Ones 
I 
>create alphabetize correctly.
>

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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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I have tried everything to alpabetize my desktop icons. Nothing worked. So, I simply right clicked each icon, dragged it to the side and dragged each icon back to be in alphabetical order. So far, they have stayed that way. I hope it works for you.


On Friday, November 7, 2003 at 5:27 am, daygain wrote:
>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.
>

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I had the same problem in XP. I took a guess. I made TempDesktop folder and copied all the shortcuts from the desktop folder to it. Deleted all the desktop shortcuts. And recopied every shortcut back to the desktop. Low and behold everything is in proper alphabetical order ! Don't know why this works thru ?


On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 5:12 pm, BOHICA wrote:
>
>I did that -- it is how I initiated the alphabetize.
>
>The easiest solution is just to copy the link and create a new short-cut. Ones I
>create alphabetize correctly.
>

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