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Rob
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      07-09-2009

My desktop icons sort into two groups. When I have them sorted on
name, the result is that half of the icons is sorted from A to Zm the
remainder is also sorted from A to Z. There are as it were two
alphabetic indezes, each with about half of the items (icons).

E.g. (skipping most icons):

Adobe Reader 9
..
..

Digital Photo Pro
..
..
..
Zoombrowser
ACDSeee
..
..
Firefox
..
..
..
WordPad


There are 36 icons on my desktop.
My system: 2 x 2 GHz Intel CPU, 2 GB RAM, Windows Vista SP1.


What can I do to have them sorted as ONE row?


Kind regards, thanks for your answer,


Rob in Amsterdam.


 
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Gene E. Bloch
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      07-09-2009

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:00:11 GMT, (Rob) wrote:

> My desktop icons sort into two groups. When I have them sorted on
> name, the result is that half of the icons is sorted from A to Zm the
> remainder is also sorted from A to Z. There are as it were two
> alphabetic indezes, each with about half of the items (icons).
>
> E.g. (skipping most icons):
>
> Adobe Reader 9
> .
> .
>
> Digital Photo Pro
> .
> .
> .
> Zoombrowser
> ACDSeee
> .
> .
> Firefox
> .
> .
> .
> WordPad
>
>
> There are 36 icons on my desktop.
> My system: 2 x 2 GHz Intel CPU, 2 GB RAM, Windows Vista SP1.
>
>
> What can I do to have them sorted as ONE row?
>
>
> Kind regards, thanks for your answer,
>
>
> Rob in Amsterdam.


Normal. Or it was in XP; I haven't bothered yet in Vista.

It seems like the icons in All Users ant the icons in your own username
sort separately, but it goes beyond that. I just gave up worrying about it
:-)

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