Auto-Sort Start Menu

[Anonymous]

I have a model that I am putting out with Windows 95 OSR2 and IE5. The Start Menu is no longer sorted in alphabetical order. Do you know of any Registry change (or any change) that would make the Start Menu automatically sort again?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

here's the trick:

The automation only works if you're using the default profile. If you have user profiles setup then you'll have to manually delete the entry each time you want it alphabetized.


to automate this task (default profile) AKA no profiles setup

create a batch file in your c:\ drive named delmenu.bat

add this entry into the batch file:

regedit /D "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu\&Programs\Menu"

make sure to use the quotes and also make sure this entry is all on one line.

now open your Autoexec.bat file and add the name of this batch file below the PATH statement.

also make sure your Path statement includes c:\

now each time you start your PC the batch file will execute and delete the Menu key and then windows (upon Loading) will recreate the Menu key and re-alphabetize your start menu


to manually delete the value: (user profiles setup)

open regedit

drill down to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu\&Programs\Menu

now delete the Menu key entirely. Reboot. Windows will automatically alphabetize the start menu and recreate the Menu Key.


enjoy