Desktop icons sort

[Tony Vella]

How does one get Vista Home Premium to sort the icons on my desktop by name
(alpha order). My Vista's idea of alpha order is: a b c c f f j m a c c c c
c c e g g m o o o o r r s w. I can ask it 20 times and they will always
come out in this sequence. Veeerrry interesting ! But annoying.
All help appreciated. Regards.

 

[KristleBawl]

Try this. Start to 'rename' a few in the first group and then a few in the
last group, and see if any of then start with a space or non-alpha-numeric
character, such as a period or apostrophe.

KB

 

[Tony Vella]

That's the annoying part of it all. I have already "renamed" the whole list
twice and nothing happens. Of course I rename to the same name but I
actually delete the name and type it in again. No Go! Oh well!
--
Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada
http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com

Try this. Start to 'rename' a few in the first group and then a few in the
last group, and see if any of then start with a space or non-alpha-numeric
character, such as a period or apostrophe.

KB

 

[ls [sb]]

are they all on the same desktop? remember what you see on your desktop is
really two desktops: the user's and public. maybe it's showing you the
contents of the one desktop sorted, followed by the contents of the other
desktop sorted.

 

[theclyde]

How does one get Vista Home Premium to sort the icons on my desktop by name
(alpha order). My Vista's idea of alpha order is: a b c c f f j m a c c c c
c c e g g m o o o o r r s w. I can ask it 20 times and they will always
come out in this sequence. Veeerrry interesting ! But annoying.
All help appreciated. Regards.

No matter how many times I arrange my icons, eventually (and seemingly
randomly) they end up auto-arranged at some point or another. Windows
has been not really saving my desktop layout for years.