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ams_tschoening
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Windows 10 1903 introduced the new "feature" to group downloads by their date by default. While one can manually change that and the web is full of instructions how to do it, it seems unclear currently if there's a way to ungroup PERMANENTLY. From my experience there's not, ungrouping seems to be valid only for the current windows it has been set in. Whenever I simply start a new Windows Explorer-window and open the downloads folder, grouping is back in place. The same is with standard Windows dialogs like "Save as" in other applications. After logging out and in again, after restarting etc., everything is back to it's defaults.
This problem ONLY happens with the downloads folder, no other is affected. Additionally, my installation is pretty much default, I did not move that folder somewhere else or anything. Especially write access to desktop.ini in that folder is permitted of course, it's simply default ACLs in use.
So, is there some way to PERMANENTLY disable grouping or not currently? If the latter, are there any plans to fix this BUG, which is NOT a feature?
If not yet, please vote for fixing because this is massively annoying. I even read about people reverting to 1809 only because of this.
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This problem ONLY happens with the downloads folder, no other is affected. Additionally, my installation is pretty much default, I did not move that folder somewhere else or anything. Especially write access to desktop.ini in that folder is permitted of course, it's simply default ACLs in use.
So, is there some way to PERMANENTLY disable grouping or not currently? If the latter, are there any plans to fix this BUG, which is NOT a feature?
If not yet, please vote for fixing because this is massively annoying. I even read about people reverting to 1809 only because of this.
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