Monday, July 16, 2007

Alphabetizing Your Start Menu and/or Favorites

Notice how your Start Menu adds new items to the end of the list and you have to constantly re-alphabetize them by right clicking and choosing "Sort by Name"? Well, here's how to tell Windows to always alphabetize them. Navigate to:

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

Click the Menu folder, then right-click Order in the right pane and select Delete from the pop-up menu. You can do the same for your Favorites, located in the same MenuOrder folder.

After you close Regedit and reboot your system, the Windows Start menus will always appear in alphabetical order.

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