alphabetizing windows 8 start screen apps?

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Does anyone know how to alphabetize start screen apps in windows 8? I am not talking about the apps you see when you right-click on the screen screen and choose 'all apps' as those are already alphabetized but the apps that you manually pin to the start screen and arrange. It seems that no matter how you move them around you can't seem to get them in order.

I am not sure where the metro icon shortcuts for the actual apps are stored when they are pinned but I do that traditional desktop apps and shortcuts/url links are stored in: %user%/appdata/roaming/microsoft/windows/start menu

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Maybe this will be of some help:

http://www.addictive...8-start-screen/

That is of partial help but if you read in the comments on that site you can see that someone is having the same problem that I am, from the last comment on the page: "All true but you can't make Metro place the tiles where you want and have them stay there. Example: Try to areange the tiles the way you want, say, alphabetically. Metro will let you move your tile, but then grab another and move it wherever it likes."

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You can't disable auto-arrange of group items currently and use it as a pure grid a la WP.

I don't care about auto-arrange, I want them to stay in a grid but it seems that when you drag an icon around, MS randomly chooses a different one to put in its place. I just want to organize the icons alphabetically.

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...that is auto-arrange, it's not a true grid as it forces each group column to be filled. Its not random, it moves the next tile row up.

You can never move the icon/tile around within the grid to get them organized alphabetically. Let's say I have a group of 12 icons in a grid and they are randomized with an icon starting with letter A as the 8th icon. If I try to move it to the 1st in the grid it randomly chooses an icon to move to the 8th spot. You can never move the icons around in the grid to get them organized A-Z. Try it and you will understand.

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Actually, I have and you can (again, movement isn't random). Its just the next time you move/add something you'll have to reshuffle so you really shouldn't be trying to force that square peg into the round hole.

You simply have to start from the 1st tile position and continue in the appropriate direction/tile size.

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