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Title: Sort start menu
Post by: parkd1 on May 12, 2014, 08:15:51 am

The start menu is not being sorted. It there some things I can check to to get start menu to sort all my installed programs?

Title: Re: Sort start menu
Post by: Shane on May 12, 2014, 12:20:55 pm

Go to start menu list of the programs, right click anywhere on the list and you have an option to sort :-)

Shane

Title: Re: Sort start menu
Post by: parkd1 on May 12, 2014, 08:27:28 pm

That did it but will I have to do it again when I install a new program?

Title: Re: Sort start menu
Post by: Shane on May 13, 2014, 10:43:39 am

Windows doesn't offer a way it looks like. I know in Windows vista, 7 and so on they stay sorted. You didn't tell me what version of Windows, but since the newer Windows stays sorted I assume you are on XP, so you have to do a little trick to make it stay sorted :wink:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/sort_menus_alphabetically.htm

Shane

Title: Re: Sort start menu
Post by: parkd1 on May 13, 2014, 10:53:30 am

I am on windows 7 64 bit.

Title: Re: Sort start menu
Post by: Shane on May 13, 2014, 10:54:50 am

If you are on Windows 7 then what style do you have the start menu set to, because on all my 7 machines the start menu stays sorted.

Shane

Title: Re: Sort start menu
Post by: Shane on May 13, 2014, 10:57:39 am

Ah you have the sort setting unchecked :-)

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-alphabetical-sorting-and-manually-change-order-of-start-menu-programs-list-in-windows-7/

Shane

Title: Re: Sort start menu
Post by: parkd1 on May 13, 2014, 11:09:06 am

That was the first thing I check and checked it. Then did what you said and it worked. Now just installed to programs and it seem to be working fine now.