Using Win7 folder as a program launcher?

With XP, I can setup an explorer folder, and have just icons shown, and no sort order.

This allows me to arrange the icons just like I want to - and use it for launching programs or documents.

As Win7 does not have the ability to disable sorting of icons in a folder, is there a way to get this functionality thru Opus9 - or thru some other 3rd party utility?

I just want to setup this one folder to be unique, and the icons must be large and un-sorted - but remember their position.

Custom sorting has been requested before but so far has not been implemented in Opus.