Re: How to Sort all Favorites Categories

From: Ron Hirsch (ronhirsch_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 05:58:34 -0500

Alan,

Possibly the "subfolder" comment wasn't clear. I saw the keys for all the
main folders in FAVORITES. But I didn't see keys for the subfolders below
the main folders. Just about all my foldres within FAVORITES have sub, and
sub-sub folders in the tree.

Ron

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"Alan Edwards" <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote in message
news:9qdut0dqirfl9kl1rhbp1afglbf8717h3j@4ax.com...
> 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
>>
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>>
>>"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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