Order in Menus and Toolbars

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If I reposition an item in my start menu (or one of the sub-menus) or reposition an icon in a taskbar toolbar, where is the information about the order held?

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I’ve got good news and bad news for you.

Good news is, I found where it stores it. Just went off of a hunch (and have played around in the registry WAY too often). It’s in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMenuOrder In that key, there should be Favorites and Start Menu keys.

Bad News. The Order value in the various sub keys looks half english, half greek, . So good luck trying to play around with them!

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Great, thanks for that.

Any ideas on the Quick Launch tool bar?

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The ‘links’ are in Documents And SettingsWhateverAccountApplication DataMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick Launch. That’s in Windows Explorer, not the registry. But for the life of me, I don’t know how it’s remembering the sort order, because my links aren’t sorted by anything I can see in those shortcut properties. Didn’t find anything in the registry either, not saying it’s not there, just did a search for Quick, and didn’t find anything.

Drew

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Yep, that’s exactly how far I got too!

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Yep, that’s exactly how far I got too!

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The ‘links’ are in Documents And SettingsWhateverAccountApplication DataMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick Launch. That’s in Windows Explorer, not the registry. But for the life of me, I don’t know how it’s remembering the sort order, because my links aren’t sorted by anything I can see in those shortcut properties. Didn’t find anything in the registry either, not saying it’s not there, just did a search for Quick, and didn’t find anything.

Drew

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Great, thanks for that.

Any ideas on the Quick Launch tool bar?

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I’ve got good news and bad news for you.

Good news is, I found where it stores it. Just went off of a hunch (and have played around in the registry WAY too often). It’s in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMenuOrder In that key, there should be Favorites and Start Menu keys.

Bad News. The Order value in the various sub keys looks half english, half greek, . So good luck trying to play around with them!

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