So I recently got a new computer and imported all my favorites from the old computer. Now on the old computer the favorites where/are in an order that I like, but when I moved them they became alphabetical. The actual favorites I just right clicked on, sort by name, and now it let’s me order them however I want. But the links folder (which I gave up on deleting a loooong time ago and just started using it) refuses to let me chose the order of the links in it. If I rearrange it, it just goes back to alphabetical order as soon as I restart IE. Any ideas???
Open IE
Go To Favorites
2nd Option should be organize favorites
Move the links where you want them by double click while holding down the 2nd click. You can drag and drop the bugger where you want it.
Nope, I really thought that would work though. I just tried it and as soon as I closed and re-opened IE it went back to alphabetical order.
I’m running a fully up-to-date version of IE6, and Chubbs suggestion works just fine. In fact, you don’t even need to go to “Organize Favorites” to change the order. Just click on Favorites, find the entry you want to move, then click-and-drag it up or down to where you want it - you should see a horizontal line moving up and down the list, which shows you where you’re dragging the entry to. When you do that, does the entry immediately pop back to its original location?
(I’ve set my machine to respond to single clicks for everything, instead of the old double-click for selecting things. This makes most applications behave more like a website, where you single-click to select things. So, if you’re still set to the default double-click, you’ll probably have to double-click-and-drag, as Chubb says.)
That’s what I do on my other computer and never had a problem. On this one though if I rearrange the main favorites menu it will stay, but the links folder within it will stay until I close and re-open the browser, then it’s back the way it started.
That’s very weird, indeed - on mine, they stay the way I put them.
Of course, the very purpose of the Links folder is to create shortcuts to your favorites that appear in the upper right, to the right of the Address window. So, if you put something in the Links folder, you’re telling IE that you want to access them not by pulling down the Favorites menu, but by going directly to the Links shortcuts in the upper right.
What happens if, instead of rearranging the entries in the Links folder under the Favorites menu, you rearrange them on the toolbar to the right of the Address window?
If you don’t actually want to use the shortcuts on the toolbar, why not set up a new Favorites folder called “MyLinks,” and move the entries from the Links folder to that one? The Links folder is a default in IE, and, as I’ve explained, it treats those entries a little differently from others, so maybe that will do what you want it to do.
The only reason I even use it is becuase I can’t delete it. It used to drive me nuts that everytime I would delete it, it would come back. It would bother me to have an empty folder there, so I just gave up and decided that if it insisted on being there, it could at least make itself useful.
I figured it out!!! You mention the link icon on the menu. Soooo…I took it off the toolbar and now I can arrange it however I want.
I use IE6 and I like my favs in the order I choose as well. I found that, after moving links, some would be back where they were next time I restarted the comp and some wouldn’t. I found that clicking to the site after you move the link seems to set it in place.
As for getting rid of folders that don’t want to go, you can just hide then instead. Right-click it and click Properties and put a check-mark in the Hidden box in Attributes on the General tab and click OK.