Hi Dudi
From your start menu Right click the Recent Items button. From the context
menu that opens select Explore. You now have your Recent Items folder open
in Windows Explorer . Right click in the heading column to add the Date
Created and Date Modified to your heading column. Now you can sort earliest
to latest by clicking the heading name of which ever column heading you want
the sort to accrue in. You can click/double click the shortcut of any recent
item and that file will open, assuming you have not deleted the file of the
shortcuts target. If you are trying to change the order/sort of what you see
when you hover your mouse over the Recent Items button of your start menu
and the popup menu that shows a limited number of the most recent files you
have opened, forget about it. That popup list will be alphabetized. And as
far as I'm concerned it should be alphabetized. One thing that can help is
not to hide known file types, that way you can see not only the file icon,
file name but can read the extension type of the files you view in the popup
of recent items/files.
Your definition of recent and someone else's definition may/will vary. Some
feel recent is today, others this week, or yesterday and today, 5 days ago
and then there are some that may feel that anything in the last 2 1/2 months
is recent. All that means is one person may clear their recent items list
before starting their work in the AM and after returning from lunch in the
PM clear it again because their starting a new project/set of task. So
those kind of peoples definition of recent is based on projects/task and
the duration of them. That is, as far as it concerns using the Recent Item
feature to find files that have been opened. Many other user that have
projects that may have longer durations don't rely on Recent Items as the
quickest way and choose to get to those files, programs using many of the
other tools and features available in Vista that are much faster at getting
back to and finding things they frequently will/may require and need in
order to complete their projects/task.
H Brown
