Desktop icons order?

[Terry Pinnell]

Never noticed before, but my icons no longer seem to get sorted into
correct alphabetic order when I use Arrange Icons By>Name. As you see
from the screenshot the two FOLDERS appear to screw things up somehow.

http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Images/DesktopIcons1.gif

The first column starts off in order OK (apart from the 3 'specials'
like My Computer), and continues in the second column. But then come
those folders (which BTW don't appear to be in any obvious sequence
anyway?), and then the alphabetic order starts *again*.

Anyone know what's up here please? Shouldn't FOLDERS be before all
shortcuts?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Terry,

The first set of shortcuts is from All Users Desktop (
%Allusersprofile%\Desktop ) and the second set is the per-user Desktop.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Terry,

The first set of shortcuts is from All Users Desktop (
%Allusersprofile%\Desktop ) and the second set is the per-user Desktop.

Thanks Ramesh. Have now merged them both into one. BTW, not sure why
those few went into All Users...

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome Terry.

 

[V Green]

You're welcome Terry.

That's usually the fault of an arrogant program install
routine, that assumes that the program being installed
"needs" to be available to anyone who logs on to
that particular machine...