Organize Favorites - sorting?

[Terry Pinnell]

Using MSIE6, in the Favorites folder (View>Explorer Bar>Favorites),
the folders are out of sequence. Yet if I open the Favorites folder
extrenally in n Explorer/My Computer window, they are in correct
alphabetic order.

Is there a way to sort them, rather than having to drag each one
individually please?

 

[Ron Bogart]

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Using MSIE6, in the Favorites folder (View>Explorer Bar>Favorites),
the folders are out of sequence. Yet if I open the Favorites folder
extrenally in n Explorer/My Computer window, they are in correct
alphabetic order.

Is there a way to sort them, rather than having to drag each one
individually please?

Before opening the Explorer Bar - try clicking on Favorites - then while
your mouse is down in the Favorites drop-down, right click and choose Sort
by Name. See if that is what you are wanting.

 

[Alan Edwards]

Use the menu option Favorites and when a favorite flies out,
rightclick on it and select "Sort by name"
Don't use the Favorites panel. It must be the menu option or you may
also do it from Start-Favorites

....Alan

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Use the menu option Favorites and when a favorite flies out,
rightclick on it and select "Sort by name"
Don't use the Favorites panel. It must be the menu option or you may
also do it from Start-Favorites

Alan, Ron: Thanks both, but I'm afraid that doesn't work here. Neither
using Sort in MSIE6 or from XP Start>Favorites. The sequence is
correct *everywhere* except in Organize Favorites, or the left panel
you get with Ctrl+i.

I think there's something wrong with my registry, because when I go to
this key with regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Favorites

below it is a list of folders that shouldn't be present. (They are
some of the ones that sort wrongly in MSIE6). But when I select one
and try to delete it, I get
"Cannot delete CD-R or RW: Error while deleting key."

Another possibility is that this sort issue and the stubborn registry
are somehow connected with fact that (years ago) I relocated Favorites
from its default to D:\, to shorten path names and generally 'tidy'
things up. (I dislike all those C:\Documents & Setings\blah blah
pathnames!) Where are *your* Favorites folders located please?

 

[Alan Edwards]

Subkeys for folders that don't exist under that ...Favorites Registry
key shouldn't matter. Close IE and delete that key and everything
should be sorted when you open IE again.

I keep my favorites in C:\Windows\Favorites but that doesn't see
relevant.
You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

....Alan

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Subkeys for folders that don't exist under that ...Favorites Registry
key shouldn't matter. Close IE and delete that key and everything
should be sorted when you open IE again.

I keep my favorites in C:\Windows\Favorites but that doesn't see
relevant.
You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

...Alan

Thanks. It wasn't that they didn't 'exist'. The lower half of that
Organize window started with folders called Agent, Art, etc, and
finished about half way down with'XP'. But then it *continued* with
Astronomy, Books, etc. Those latter were the only ones under the
registry key. I eventually had to change 'permissions' (all a vague
mystery to me!) before I finally managed to delete them. And then all
was OK in the Organize folder itself.

All that now seems a long time ago. Last night I took the plunge and
decided to upgrade to XP SP2. Why oh why did I do that...?!