Save Quick Launch Toolbar layout

29 Nov 2007 12:04 PM

Ian D Samson

After one of the most recent downloads for W2K SP4, Microsoft in all
their wisdom and understanding of users' needs, requirements and
preferences, decided to re-arrange the Quick Launch Toolbar
alphabetically, irrespective of how long it had taken "this user" to
arrange the icons into groups by preference, order of use, sequences,
commonly-used icons vs not-so-commonly-used icons, etc. It has taken
me 2 weeks to get my Quick Launch Toolbar back to the way I want it.
Now I am looking for a way to save it so that it stays the way I want
it to be, not the way MS or anyone else decides for me it should be.

How can I save my QLT layout?

Thanks.

29 Nov 2007 2:45 PM

Sid Elbow

Strange. I'm current with all available updates and this hasn't happened
to me. And MS is ostensibly only issuing strictly security updates for
Win2k ... not diddling with any aesthetics (even if they need it).

Are you sure this is caused by a Windows Update?

Ian D Samson wrote:
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> After one of the most recent downloads for W2K SP4, Microsoft in all
> their wisdom and understanding of users' needs, requirements and
> preferences, decided to re-arrange the Quick Launch Toolbar
> alphabetically, irrespective of how long it had taken "this user" to
> arrange the icons into groups by preference, order of use, sequences,
> commonly-used icons vs not-so-commonly-used icons, etc. It has taken
> me 2 weeks to get my Quick Launch Toolbar back to the way I want it.
> Now I am looking for a way to save it so that it stays the way I want
> it to be, not the way MS or anyone else decides for me it should be.
>
> How can I save my QLT layout?
>
> Thanks.

29 Nov 2007 4:30 PM

Ian D Samson

On Nov 29, 4:45 pm, Sid Elbow <h***@there.com> wrote:

> Strange. I'm current with all available updates and this hasn't happened
> to me. And MS is ostensibly only issuing strictly security updates for
> Win2k ... not diddling with any aesthetics (even if they need it).
>
> Are you sure this is caused by a Windows Update?
>

Hi Sid, It was fine before the update, after the update it was re-
arranged. Please explain that. I did not add nor remove any software.
However, as you so correctly put it: "MS is ostensibly ...." Enough
said!

Ian

29 Nov 2007 6:49 PM

Sid Elbow

Ian D Samson wrote:

> On Nov 29, 4:45 pm, Sid Elbow <h***@there.com> wrote:
>> Strange. I'm current with all available updates and this hasn't happened
>> to me. And MS is ostensibly only issuing strictly security updates for
>> Win2k ... not diddling with any aesthetics (even if they need it).
>>
>> Are you sure this is caused by a Windows Update?
>>
>
> Hi Sid, It was fine before the update, after the update it was re-
> arranged. Please explain that. I did not add nor remove any software.

I assume the "Please explain that" is kind of rhetorical since obviously
I can't, given that I didn't get the problem (on any of 5 machines) and
no one else has reported it here (that I've seen). :-)

The only observation I can make is that Windows seems to be quite
paranoid sometimes in the order of certain items. I've noticed in IE
that if I drag an Internet shortcut onto the toolbar it will try to
place it in alphabetical order (not where I dragged it to) and may, at
the same time re-arrange any existing toolbar shortcuts for me while I'm
at it (thanks a bunch). Locking/unlocking the toolbar doesn't help and
it sometimes takes several goes of dragging stuff around before
IE/Windows finally gets the message and leaves things where you put them.

Your Quick Launch problem kind of reminds me of that. Sorry - not being
much help.