jmuzz
30th October 2006 14:37 UTC

Start menu icon ordering.
Hi. I'm having a problem with the order that my icons appear when they're being made with the CreateShortCut function.

On most computers, it is in alphabetical order, which is fine.

On one xp computer that we tested on, and in some of the older operating systems, the icons appear in the opposite order. I tried creating the icons in the order I wanted them to appear and I tried creating them in the opposite order, but both produced the same results.

Is there any way to specify, or to sort them after they're made? Can I force sorting in alphabetical order?

kichik
30th October 2006 19:27 UTC

There's no API for ordering the start menu icons. That's up for the user to decide how they are ordered.

onad
31st October 2006 10:26 UTC

There is no API as I know of, Kichik is right (as always ;),
but you could examine the logic in

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder

and see if you can make a plugin or routine to change the values.

{_trueparuex^}
31st October 2006 10:57 UTC

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20618339.html
Look the answer below. :)