Re: Start menu subfolders not allowing drag/drop for arranging

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Right click on Quickdocs and select Explore.

Start Menu\Quickdocs folder will open.

Try managing your other folders and shortcuts from there.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:738BDD6D-8F33-4491-A842-12533E25D313@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Milo-in-San-Diego <MiloinSanDiego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and
pecked:
Back in January, I reloaded XP on a computer after a hard drive crash on
and some setting is different this time around.

On my start menu, which I keep in Classic Mode, I have a few folders for
things I access frequently. One of these is called Quickdocs and has
shortcuts to a bunch of files I use a lot.

Before the crash, I could rearrange these shortcuts on the secondary menu
that pops up after I click on StartMenu/Quickdocs. Now they are stuck in
alphabetical order and it won't let me rearrange them to put them in
groupings that make more sense to my usage. I don’t want to sort them
on some field OTHER than name. I just want to be able to rearrange them
manually with drag and drop to group common things and put most used ones
near the top.

I've pasted a screen print at http://www.improventures.com/play/temp.htm
to make it clear what the problem is. You can see that both the
sub-folders and the documents WITHIN those subfolders are in alphabetical
order that cannot
be changed.

I've already verified that the “Enable dragging and dropping� option
is set right, so that’s not it. I CAN drag-and-drop items on the Start
Menu itself…just not on the sub folders that are in the Start Menu
itself.

What do I need to change? thanks!

PS: I did post this months ago and never got a response. I know it's bad
form to re-post, but after so long, I'm hoping someone can help now.

.

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