How do I tell Recent Documents to display in alphabetical order?

Question

I'm using Windows 98. (I also drive a stick shift and have the last manual-focus 35mm film camera in Stanislaus County.)

I can click on Start -> Documents, then right-click anywhere in the list and select "Sort by name". They stay sorted by name until I open something else; it goes to the bottom in chronological order. If I shut off my machine, they revert to chronological order when I turn it on again.

I'd like to set something, somewhere, to tell the machine to keep my recent documents in alphabetical order all the time.

As usual, Microsoft "Help" doesn't.

Thank you.

Answer 1

If you are comfortable with making a change to your Registry, try this:

1. Run Regedit (under Start/Run in most versions of Windows)
2. Look under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\
Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\
MenuOrder\Start Menu\
Documents\Menu
3. Is there an item called "order"? If so, see how it is set. Most likely you need to delete this item entirely.