Saving the Internet Explorer Favorites order

[Stuart Halliday]

I did have all my favorites in IE6 on Win2000 sp4 in my particular order.

But today I find my Links toolbar is showing them in alphabetical order.

How can I get my old order back?

Is there a utility that saves the order or a OS file I can restore?

Is it a registry setting? Does anyone know?

Or am I just the odd one out here as I don't want my Favs in alpha order?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

am I just the odd one out here as I don't want my Favs in alpha order?

I find searching is faster when they aren't in alpha order.
E.g. I learn the minimum number of keystrokes to find ones I use
frequently or move them higher in the list to allow some to be found
even quicker.

I have never tried using a sorted order so I don't know if you need
to try unchecking the Sort option (e.g. in the same way that you check it
to choose the sort option). Supposedly just dragging a Favorite shortcut
to a different place in the list is sufficient to turn it off. Alternatively, it looks
as if you should also be able to use right-click Cut and Paste too.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle

 

[Stuart Halliday]

I have never tried using a sorted order so I don't know if you need
to try unchecking the Sort option (e.g. in the same way that you check it
to choose the sort option). Supposedly just dragging a Favorite shortcut
to a different place in the list is sufficient to turn it off.
Alternatively, it looks
as if you should also be able to use right-click Cut and Paste too.

But there *must* be a file somewhere in Windows which stores the
current order of favorites. I just need to discover which file and
save it.

Microsoft don't make their software easy to use do they?

Give me RISC OS any day....Oh hum.

 

[Dr. John]

Have the same issue ( Links entries will not stay manually sorted) and
searching everwhere has yet to yeild a viable answer. WHAT IS THE MVP
SOLUTION HERE???

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Favorites May Not Sort in Alphabetical Order
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=259735

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