Desktop icons in two alphabetical groups, why?

[ByGolly!]

Need some help. I keep a lot of program icons on my desktop. When I try
to sort them alphabetically they sort in two groups. The first group is
alphabetical and the second group is alphabetical.

As an example, I use F-Prot Anti Virus and it is in the first group. I
also use F-Prot Anti Virus Updater and it is in the second group. Both
were installed at the same time.

Some program icons are in the second group no matter what I do, eg.,
Metastock, UltraISO, SpywareRemover, and numberous others. Others are in
the first alphabetical group. Both groups go from a to z. Assignment
appears random. There seems to be no way to predict whether a program will
wind up in the first group or in the second group. At least not that I
have been able to determine.

Alphabetical arrangement would seem to imply that all icons should appear
in alphabetical order. Not so.

I have tried the other organizational methods by right-clicking on the
destop: size, type and modified (date). Nothing helps.

Anybody got any ideas how they can all be in one alphabetical sort?

Frank

 

[Guest]

It may be separating the items in the shared desktop from the items in the
user desktop. Check the folders in the documents and setting folder and see
if that is the case.