Unable to sort list of pinned apps

This is not something we can reproduce in 1.0, though there was an issue in the betas with small icons mode.

How many pinned items do you have and where is your taskbar positioned?

Where it inserts is shown by the insertion line that appears when you are dragging.

Hi there,

for me the same problem if i try to drag a pinned item to a diferent position it re-arrange my complete pinned item list.

using small icons with allocate room for at least 6 large icons. actually i have 12 items in my pinned section.

 I have nineteen pinned items. I've tried switching to large icons then back, removing items, and still I'm unable to arrange pinned items. I did notice that when I grab a pinned item, some of them have small icons and some have large icons that move as I try to arrange them. The small icons are about an inch above the pointer, when moving pinned items.

I just check in the About and it states: Version 0.98 Beta3

I Think I found something; There was a 0.98 and a 1.0 installed in the add and remove programs. I removed both, cleaned everything in the registry under Stardock, rebooted and installed 1.0. It was doing the same thing but messing around with it, I removed the weather icon from the Windows 8 start page because trying to move it kept popping back to the second position. It has now automatically alphabetized all the pinned items.

I have 19 pinned items, and have set the 'allocate room for large icons' to 12. There is a large gap between my last pinned item and the 'All Programs' (could hold one more small item to fill the gap). If I set the 'allocate room for large icons' to 11 to try and close the gap the 'All Programs' cuts the last pinned item in half. It appears that there needs to be an 'allocate room for small icons' in order to allocate specific space for the small icons.

Also, when I grab a small pinned item to move, the icon that is ghosted is sometimes large and small. This is static. If the ghosted icon shows a large icon it doesn't change, as does the small icon. I'm thinking that it should be displaying small icons only, if they are small items in the pinned list. The icons display exactly the same weather large or small is use in the pinned items list.

Also, when I grab a pinned item to move, the ghosted icon that moves with it is about an inch above the pointer, and depending where you grab the pinned item to move, the ghosted icon could be off the screen on the left edge.

I'm not real sure how Start 8 is supposed to sort the pinned items.

Is this user configurable (move and drop where we want)?

Does it just sort alphabetically?

I can't get Styart8 to sort anything. Grab the item and drop and it wanders to a completely different spot. Start8 did automatically sort alphabetically at one time, but going in there today the list is all jumbled up.

Using Version1.0 on Windows 8 x64 Professional

We have had a report that having more than 10 items pinned is causing the order to get mixed up on reordering things.  This is currently being investigated.

The order of items is controlled by the keys here : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Pinned and these get set as you move things by dragging them.

The order they are in is based on the number, but once the count exceeds 10 apparently the numbers become inconsistent.

Also today after a reboot all the majority of the small icons were gray boxes. I had to go large and back to small to restore, well there is still one icon that is nothing more then a gray box. If I go large the icon is there; going small it's just a gray box.

I have 19 items showing in my pinned list. However the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Pinned' is showing 25 items. It appears Start8 is not deleting the items from the registry when they are being removed from the Start8 pinned list.

All 25 items are listed in the registry in alphabetical order. However the data column only contains single digit numbers from 0-9, and there are a bunch of 1's, couple of 8's and 9's.

The data column, I'm guessing is how Start8 organizes the pinned list? if I have 19 items then the data Coolum should be 0-18, and how they are numbered is how they are displayed in the pinned list?

I went in ad deleted all the items that were not listed in the pinned list, from the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Pinned' registry key, and renumbered from 0-18 and the pinned list is back to alphabetical, and the gray ghosted lone pinned icon is back to normal.

Same issue for me. Here are some settings I'm using:

Windows 8 Pro (DreamSpark) w/ Media Center Pack

All updates installed

[Start8 v1.0]

Windows 7 Style

Default Theme

8 pinned items

Using large icons

Allocate room for at least 10 large icons

Show recently used applications (checked)

Let me know if more info is needed.

I have a similar problem. Sometimes I can't sort pinned items. Sometimes after restarts they change their order.

Version 1.0

4 pinned items

I am having the same issue. Regardlless of icon size or amount of room for icons allocated.

The issue occurs after a clean install of Win8 and it is extremely annoying.

Please review and advise.

I installed this on Win8 a couple days ago and can confirm that once I have more than 10 apps pinned I am unable to sort them in any type of order. Love the launcher though

We have this resolved in the upcoming 1.01 build.

I have the same issues as others describe above in terms of I can't drag/drop to for example the Start-up folder and I cant re-order etc. I waited until ver 1.01 in the hope the problem would be fixed as stated above. For me however the problem remains. I'm part way through my trial period and obviously won't proceed until this is fixed. Hope this happens before my trial ends?

Is your issue that you cannot sort PINNED items, or are you reporting that you cannot reorder the all programs list?

It seems to be fixed in v1.01. No issues regarding this yet.

From all programs list I can't drag/drop anywhere eg. to the likes of start-up or to the desktop.

This is something we are looking to add in for our 1.1 update.

ver 1.01 fixed the sorting issue for me.

Glad I re-checked the forum today and learned that an updated version (1.01) is available.

When I had Start8 checking for updates, I got the message that no updates from ver 1.00 are available...

It should start to indicate about updates later this week.  Thats something we have changed for future updates.