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karthik
karthik

Reputation:

Specifying the Order of Start Menu Shortcuts

I created shortcuts for some of my exe's in the program menu. For example, I might create shortcuts for a.exe, v.exe, and g.exe. By default, it aligns as a, g, v (in alphabetical order). I want to place my shortcuts in a different order, such as (v, a, g).

In short, I want to be able to change the order for the shortcuts it creates to something other than alphabetical order.

I am using wshshellobject in vb. I created a dll; through that I created my shortcuts

Upvotes: 0

Views: 534

Answers (1)

Danny Tuppeny
Danny Tuppeny

Reputation: 42353

Assuming you're trying to modify the order of your shortcuts on the Start Menu, I'm not sure this is possible to do programatically (which is a shame - I've fired up the uninstallers for many apps in Vista/7 by typing their names and just hitting without looking!).

Microsoft's Raymond Chen posted this on his blog some time ago:

The classic Start menu and the "All Programs" portion of the Windows XP Start menu permit you to customize the order of the shortcuts that appear there. You can use drag/drop to rearrange them, or force them to be sorted by name. But why is there no programmatic interface to these actions?

Because the power would be used for evil far more than it would be used for good.

More info here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/06/19/636823.aspx

Upvotes: 3

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