Disable the Libraries Feature on Windows 7

Originally Posted by RAK

I do the same as John, but have the folder on the desktop,rather than a shortcut. I have it saved for subsequent reinstalls to save a bit of time. I,ve got used to it now and could hardly manage without it.


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Have you tried renaming the folders in your screen shot to something like "1Pictures", 2Stationary", "3Documents", etc. to force a different arrangement. (numbers take precedence over letters in alphabetic arrangement) It is a "Mickey Mouse" way to have to do that, and is a disgrace that Microsoft took away the ability to arrange them according to each user's preference, but it works in most cases. (I also use that "trick" to arrange frequently called numbers to the top of the list on my cell phone. This forces "1John" ahead of "Abby")

Thanks John. I appreciate the thought, but as I can see all the icons at the same time, a simple mouse click works for me.
Otherwise I just type the name in the search box of the Start.

Originally Posted by john3347

Have you tried renaming the folders in your screen shot to something like "1Pictures", 2Stationary", "3Documents", etc. to force a different arrangement. (numbers take precedence over letters in alphabetic arrangement) It is a "Mickey Mouse" way to have to do that, and is a disgrace that Microsoft took away the ability to arrange them according to each user's preference, but it works in most cases. (I also use that "trick" to arrange frequently called numbers to the top of the list on my cell phone. This forces "1John" ahead of "Abby")

Oddly keeping it on the taskbar the manual ordering sticks there just fine

it's funny john, but the things you are complaining about seem extremely trivial to me. first, after disabling align to grid and ordering, i can put my icons in any order i decide to have them. second, why would m$ want to network their new opsys to an opsys that they will no longer support? even a better question, is why would people want to hold on to riding horses as basic transportation, when we now have beamers and benzes? in general, i think people need to get with the program, and realize that hanging on to the old, is counter productive to the future. win 7 is a million times better than xp, and if you bother to learn about the opsys, it is sooooooooooo much more useful. why would there be such a desparity between clicking on an icon from the taskbar, and doing the same from the desktop? i mean, how lazy can we actually become as a society? i don't have a single icon on my desktop, and i guarantee i can get to my programs just as fast as anyone else can, and just as easily.
and as mentioned earlier, the search bar in the start menu can get you to anything quickly and easily.

cant help but agree, dump legacy and live in the now...lol

I totally agree with the last two posts, concerning moving on to new things, instead of trying to change them. However, many users are addicted to customisation, whatever the first, and often, faultless, default may be. (I believe I am a fringe user in that category!)
I do not read Johns posts as complaints, but statements of his own experiments. Mayb a little badly worded and so can be regrded as complaints? They can be interesting, and may be of use to the customisation freaks. If you look at one of the older sites, such as Techguy, for example, you will see that, even after so many years, users of XP and Vista, are still moving things around in the interests of such customisation. Our site here, as an example, has more than 300 posts, in two threads, on the subject of trying to revert the Start menu back to the original.

By the way, Fwiw stevae, I did not read that anyone was having problems arranging the desktop icons. The references were to the Windows Explorer.