Re: How to Sort all Favorites Categories

From: Alan Edwards (edwards_at_southcom.com.au)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:32:26 +1100

That key controls the order.
When the key is deleted, then the sort will revert back to the natural
alpha order. That will remain until you start adding or moving
favorites, so it is really a once-off fix.

I don't understand your comment that it has no subfolders.
There is a subkey for each folder and deleting the key deletes the
subkeys as well.

...Alan 

-- 
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html
 
In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Ron Hirsch"
<ronhirsch@adelphia.net> wrote:
>Alan,
>
>I've not seen that approach before. I'm afraid I don't understand how that 
>Registry key deletion will sort everything in the main and all subfolders.
>
>I looked at that key, and it's just a folder listing of the Favorites, and 
>shows no subfolders.
>
>Hopefully you can explain the rationale behind deleting that key.
>
>I assume that it will regenerate that key when IE is next loaded. But why 
>will it sort then?
>
>Thanks -
>
>Ron Hirsch
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>"Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message 
>news:2lrtt05335jc5duu8r0u9im8ibu6d3nek5@4ax.com...
>> It is easy to do all in one hit.
>>
>> Open Regedit, navigate to this key and remove it.
>> Ensure IE is not running at the time.
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Favorites
>>
>> ...Alan
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
>> http://dts-l.org/index.html
>>
>> In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Norm Dresner"
>> <ndrez@att.net> wrote:
>>
>>>After ten years or so of web browsing and moving favorites from computer 
>>>to
>>>computer as I upgrade I find that I have over 200 folders of favorites.  I
>>>decided recently that I would like to have each folder sorted
>>>alphabetically.  I know how to do this manually with the right-click 
>>>context
>>>menu, but I've got over 2600 favorites organized into over 200 folders and
>>>that's a daunting task for anyone.  I even tried exporting the entire set,
>>>deleting all of them, and then importing the exported list, but there was 
>>>no
>>>reorganization and most of the folders are still randomly ordered [mostly 
>>>by
>>>when each link is created but that's far from alphabetic].
>>>
>>>I googled, but there was nothing obvious in the first few screens of hits.
>>>
>>>Is there an (easy) hack that will sort all categories of favorites?  Maybe 
>>>a
>>>(shareware) program to do it?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>    Norm
>> 
>

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