Auto-sort Windows Favorites?

July 26, 2005 12:05 PM

Is there any way to have my Favorites in Windows Explorer (XP Pro) be automatically sorted in alpha order?
posted by everichon to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

Use Sort by Name?
posted by kuperman at 12:08 PM on July 26, 2005

Response by poster: Use Sort by Name?

Where is that option? I am talking about the Favorites pulldown in the toolbar menu.
posted by everichon at 12:19 PM on July 26, 2005

I want my favourites to behave like this, but I've never got it to refresh itself into alpha order properly when I add a new one.

However, you can navigate to the folder they're in and sort them that way, and leave "auto arrange" ticked - doesn't actually auto-arrange them though for me.

The folder is

c:\documents and settings\username\favourites
posted by selton at 12:25 PM on July 26, 2005

Best answer: Click on the Favorites menu, right-click any random one in the list, and click "Sort by Name."
posted by kuperman at 12:31 PM on July 26, 2005

Click "Favorites" from the menu bar. Once the list drops down, right click any of the shortcuts and select "Sort by Name" from the context menu.
posted by bwilms at 12:31 PM on July 26, 2005

...well, it will sort it, but when you start adding more, it doesn't keep it sorted. Sorry about that...
posted by kuperman at 12:33 PM on July 26, 2005

Response by poster: Click on the Favorites menu, right-click any random one in the list, and click "Sort by Name."

Yeah, the colleague for whom I posted this question just found that out, and it works for him, but not for me! Fortunately, I can live with unsorted favorites. Thanks, all.
posted by everichon at 12:34 PM on July 26, 2005

yeah download it here
posted by chuckforthought.com at 5:34 PM on July 26, 2005