Favorites Bar in IE 8 - keeps reorganising the favourites


  1. Posts : 9
    Win 7
       #1

    Favorites Bar in IE 8 - keeps reorganising the favourites


    Favorites Bar in IE 8 - keeps reorganising the favourites

    Is there any tick box or anything from preventing this from happening?
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    Welcome
    I have my web favorites, set to sort to alphabetical name, (just right click and sort by name)
    Then every new one will be last on the list you must go through the procedrue again

    If you do not want alphabetical order then call favorites something like this
    1 yahooo
    3 a good site
    2 seven forums

    the order will be 1 2 3 after you sort by name.
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  3. Posts : 9
    Win 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    any other suggestion - instead of putting the 1. 2. 3.?
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  4. Posts : 2,066
    Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
       #4

    Strange. I just move them to the arrangement I want and they stay there. "Sort by" applies to desktop icons and the headings of Windows Explorer windows but not the Favorites Bar in IE.
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  5. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #5

    If you go to any of the favorites and right click, you will see sort by name. That is the only sort that I know in favorites. I have found that any new additions to favorites appears at the end of the list.
    In IE8
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  6. Posts : 2,066
    Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
       #6

    richc46 said:
    If you go to any of the favorites and right click, you will see sort by name. That is the only sort that I know in favorites. I have found that any new additions to favorites appears at the end of the list.
    In IE8
    Your right. I usually don't use the favorites list within the browser since I prefer to sort by date which can only be done in Windows Explorer using the date modified header. However you can sort by name within the Favorites Bar folder inside the normal Favorites list within in IE8. I just tried it and sure enough it screwed up my favorites bar...hope I can fix it so it doesn't continue to sort by name...yes you can by dragging the icons either in the bar or in the IE8 list.
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  7. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #7

    Please someone tell me how to make the favorites list in IE8 go bact to sorting chronologically! IE8 decided on its own to start sorting by name, this does not work for me! Reason: I did not make up the names, but I know about when I saved them, and generally the same subject is grouped around a date. The names relate to NOTHING, and sorting by them just makes things unfindable! (Whoever had this stupid idea and decided to just IMPOSE it on everyone else is grandiose and nuts too. Not an insult, just a fact!)
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  8. Posts : 2,066
    Windows 8 Pro w/MC 32-bit
       #8

    When you right-click on the Favorites list "Sort by Name" is the only option. Personally I prefer to sort by date myself so I just create a shortcut for the Favorites folder in Windows Explorer for the desktop. Then just click on the desktop icon, it opens Favorites in Windows Explorer. Then click the date column to sort by date (assuming you are in details view and have added the date column). Of course, this method isn't completely foolproof since Windows has a way of resetting all the dates sometimes. Then you're back to sorting by name anyway but it was good while it lasted. (I long for the stability of Win 98!)

    Of course, the primary way of finding stuff you know you have somewhere is to type a few key words in to the start/search box.
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  9. Posts : 1
    Xp Home 32?
       #9

    Favorites BAR


    Everyone of you totally ignored the question. They asked about the useless Favorites BAR, not the Favorites list. Now, how about an answer?
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