Desktop icons sort

How does one get Vista Home Premium to sort the icons on my desktop by name
(alpha order). My Vista's idea of alpha order is: a b c c f f j m a c c c c
c c e g g m o o o o r r s w. I can ask it 20 times and they will always
come out in this sequence. Veeerrry interesting ! But annoying.
All help appreciated. Regards.
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Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada
http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com

Try this. Start to 'rename' a few in the first group and then a few in the
last group, and see if any of then start with a space or non-alpha-numeric
character, such as a period or apostrophe.

KB

"Tony Vella" <> wrote in message
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> How does one get Vista Home Premium to sort the icons on my desktop by
> name (alpha order). My Vista's idea of alpha order is: a b c c f f j m a
> c c c c c c e g g m o o o o r r s w. I can ask it 20 times and they will
> always come out in this sequence. Veeerrry interesting ! But annoying.
> All help appreciated. Regards.
> --
> Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada
> http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com

That's the annoying part of it all. I have already "renamed" the whole list
twice and nothing happens. Of course I rename to the same name but I
actually delete the name and type it in again. No Go! Oh well!
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Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada
http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com

"KristleBawl" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Try this. Start to 'rename' a few in the first group and then a few in the
> last group, and see if any of then start with a space or non-alpha-numeric
> character, such as a period or apostrophe.
>
> KB
>
> "Tony Vella" <> wrote in message
> news:GY-dnS5bNrrlT-...
>> How does one get Vista Home Premium to sort the icons on my desktop by
>> name (alpha order). My Vista's idea of alpha order is: a b c c f f j m a
>> c c c c c c e g g m o o o o r r s w. I can ask it 20 times and they will
>> always come out in this sequence. Veeerrry interesting ! But annoying.
>> All help appreciated. Regards.
>> --
>> Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada
>> http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com
>

are they all on the same desktop? remember what you see on your desktop is
really two desktops: the user's and public. maybe it's showing you the
contents of the one desktop sorted, followed by the contents of the other
desktop sorted.

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"Tony Vella" <> wrote in message
news:GY-dnS5bNrrlT-...
> How does one get Vista Home Premium to sort the icons on my desktop by
> name (alpha order). My Vista's idea of alpha order is: a b c c f f j m a
> c c c c c c e g g m o o o o r r s w. I can ask it 20 times and they will
> always come out in this sequence. Veeerrry interesting ! But annoying.
> All help appreciated. Regards.
> --
> Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada
> http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com

On Jun 21, 2:33 pm, "Tony Vella" <tony.ve...@rogers.com> wrote:
> How does one get Vista Home Premium to sort the icons on my desktop by name
> (alpha order). My Vista's idea of alpha order is: a b c c f f j m a c c c c
> c c e g g m o o o o r r s w. I can ask it 20 times and they will always
> come out in this sequence. Veeerrry interesting ! But annoying.
> All help appreciated. Regards.
> --
> Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canadahttp://indian-biographies.shorturl.com

No matter how many times I arrange my icons, eventually (and seemingly
randomly) they end up auto-arranged at some point or another. Windows
has been not really saving my desktop layout for years.

If you cut and paste contents of public desktop to your desktop then you
will get them in name sequence


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Hairy Scot