Re: Ordering buttons on the Taskbar

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I don't remember indicating that I can sort the buttons. They always appear
in the order that the applications are opened.

Nothing odd happens. No crashes or restarts needed. I don't see the buttons
move. I am not using a full screen application. At the time it happened
today, I had Word, Excel, File Explorer, Firefox, and Groupwise open.
Groupwise was first, and it moved to the rightmost spot on the task bar. I
look down and my email button is not where it was.


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

I assumed the QL bar because you indicated that you could sort them. Buttons
that represent open applications are sorted in the order the apps are opened
and you can't change that. If the buttons that are open get re-ordered
somehow, that's about as strange as it gets. Can you see it happen? Does
anything else happen, like Windows Explorer having to be killed and
restarted? Are you using any full-screen application?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Myrna" <Myrna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary,
I am not talking about the quick launch bar. No icons. Buttons and button
groups.

Myrna

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

You're not talking about the Taskbar, you're talking about the
QuickLaunch
bar, an optional part of the Taskbar. You can drag the icons to order
them
the way you want them, but if the order gets lost, I don't think there's
any
way to quickly get it back. You have to manually re-order them. If you
disable the QL bar and then re-enable it, the order is lost. The default,
when the manual order is lost, is to order them alphabetically.

I don't know what's causing your order to be lost unless it's that you
disabled/re-enabled the QL bar, but the order is stored in the Registry,
so
perhaps yours is having some problem that causes that set of entries to
be
lost and then recreated in default order.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Myrna" <Myrna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've noticed sometimes the buttons on my taskbar get reordered. I don't
know
why this happens. I also can't figure out how to order them back to
what
I'd
prefer. Can anyone help on this?






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