Alphabetical Bookmarks

When will I have that ...

[fashezee]

Anyone else wonder why bookmarks in IE do not get sorted alpabetically...?

[RainMaker]

Well I can't say that I have wondered that but I think I may have a solution for you. As you prolly know that windows is basically a bunch of COM put together. Well DLL's upon DLL's are waiting out there for people to check out their member functions. I am sure that there is a function out there that you can improve upon. Basically what you do is you write a program that (is a COM) object that runs only for a bit that actually does the alphabetical sort. Basically it would be a wrapper function that implements what is already out there....Or you can e-mail microsoft and say HEY where is my alphabetical Bookmarks?!....:-)

[digitalghost]

Or you can right click after you open your bookmarks and select "sort by name". ;)

[RainMaker]

Now what fun would that be digital? haha! I don't use my bookmarks at all so I have no idea if they do them automatically or not...hmmm

[fashezee]

Or you can right click after you open your bookmarks and select "sort by name".

Very interesting...Not sure how I missed that. Thanks buddy.

[GaryK]

It's been my experience that manually rearranging your Favorites (via drag and drop, for example) can change the default behavior of Windows which is to sort the Favorites in alphabetical order.

Here's a somewhat more permanent solution that works in Windows although the key might be different in XP. It's based on MS KB Article #Q177482:

Run RegEdit. Browse to and delete this key:

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

Now Close RegEdit and restart Windows. Windows will scan the registry and recreate MenuOrder with the default settings.

edited post-coffee for clarity

[edited by: GaryK at 3:04 pm (utc) on May 7, 2003]

[RainMaker]

nobody liked my COM object DLL? lol :-(

[GaryK]

Actually it was a humorous idea, albeit IMO impractical. But I suspect you already knew that. :)

[RainMaker]

here is something really funny....."albeit IMO impractical"----> I have no idea what that means...haha! Is this forum lingo? :-)

[GaryK]

Albeit [dictionary.reference.com].

IMO is an acronym for In My Opinion.

:)

[ncsuk]

"albeit" actually mean "All be it" which in English means "in other words".

God and I thought my C in English at school would get me nowhere...!