Restore
(Alphabetical) Order to Your Start and Favorites Menus
By default,
Windows XP displays the contents of the Start and Favorites menus in alphabetical
order, but sometimes when new programs are installed, they aren’t
placed in their proper place alphabetically, or you may have dragged and
dropped the shortcuts to rearrange them. You can restore the alphabetical
order by editing the registry.
For the Start
menu:
- Open your
favorite registry editor.
- In the
left pane, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start
Menu\Menu.
- In the
right pane, right click the item named Order.
- Click
Delete.
- Close
the registry editor.
To
do the same for the Favorites menu, substitute this key and follow the
same procedure:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Favorites\Menu.
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