gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » order start menu http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Automatically order your Windows XP Start menu alphabeticallyhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/01/automatically-order-your-windows-xp-start-menu-alphabetically/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/01/automatically-order-your-windows-xp-start-menu-alphabetically/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:41:46 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/01/automatically-order-your-windows-xp-start-menu-alphabetically/ The windows xp star menu adds new entries to the end of the list even though you have sorted it alphabetically before by right-clicking and choosing to sort the entries by name. Most users who sort their start menu alphabetically don’t like it when new entries to the start menu are added at the bottom of the list. Looks bad, causes confusion.

Fortunately there is a registry hack that changes the default sort order to alphanumeric instead of date. Start by right-clicking in the programs window of the start menu and select Sort by Name. Open your registry editor by pressing Windows + R and typing regedit to open the registry. Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\

Make sure you backup the key (MenuOrder) or the complete registry before you proceed. After you have done that delete the key MenuOrder. Once this is done new entries will also be sorted alphabetically.

Please note that the key will reappear after you have restarted windows.

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