Daitaku
The Law and Order of Icons
Posted 17 December 2001 - 16:26
Posted 17 December 2001 - 16:46
From the sounds of it, this in Windows Explorer and not the Start Menu. 'cause the latter will append new items under Windows 2000/Windows 98 and re-alphabetize under Windows NT/Windows 95.
If it's Explorer, then is it simply that you're re-running your setup on some occasions? 'cause that that would explain the behavior you're seeing.
If that folder is open, the initial run through would append items as the setup copies/creates them. Other times, those items are already there, so there's nothing for the setup to append.
Posted 17 December 2001 - 17:12
Sometimes it looks like (the letter is the first letter of the item)
Folder - Subfolder A
Subfolder D
Subfolder F
Subfolder I
Shortcut L
Shortcut R
Shortcut U
Which is the way it should. and sometimes it looks like:
Folder - Subfolder D
Subfolder I
Shortcut L
Subfolder A
Subfolder F
Shortcut R
Shortcut U
I realize this is not critical but it is simply annoying. My Win98 machine and my colleague's WinME machine are fine (although she says they were mixed up a few installs ago) and my own WinME machine is mixed up as well.
Daitaku
Posted 17 December 2001 - 23:06
Posted 17 December 2001 - 23:08
Posted 18 December 2001 - 10:35
If you delete the subkey for your program folder, explorer will order the subfolders and links alphabetically and write this into the registry again.
Just search the registry for your folder name and look what happens if you delete the key ... (make sure you have a backup of the registry/key)
Posted 18 December 2001 - 19:39
For reference, the key is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder
Daitaku