Re: Changing default sort order in XP?
I know what you are talking about - is this what you are experiencing:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319827
Just an fyi, I tried the reghacks (even the TweakUI tool has a setting for
it for the faint of heart!) and it DOES NOT WORK on my WinXP SP3 system. I
am fighting this right now, because I am populatiing 900 groups from 900
file contents, and when I sort the group names in Active Directory Users and
Computers, it sorts like I have always been taught in school, however, the
folder sort throws things around, and I really have to double check the file
name vs. the group name. Why would MS decide that the way millions of people
have been taught to sort is wrong?
--
Mike
"Pheasant Plucker®" <pheasant@plucker.not> wrote in message
news:OvGtghg9IHA.5668@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the reply Bob,
>
> I'll give that a go...but is it me or does XP behave differently because I
> don't recall having this issue in W2K and earlier?
>
> Thanks & regards,
> -=pp=-
>
>
> "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23ijzfIc8IHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Then you will need to go to Tools, Folder Options, View, and set overall
> preferences, like "Remember each folders view settings" and apply that
> to all folders.
>
> Pheasant Plucker® wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply Rey but that is not what I had in mind - its not
>> just
>> new files...and I would expect the new files to be shown in their correct
>> order the next time I browse the folder...
>>
>> In all earlier versions of Windows I have used the arrange order seemed
>> to
>> be taken care of automatically.
>>
>> In XP I struggle to find files sometimes as when I browse a folder with
> many
>> files shown as Tiles they do not seem to be in alphabetical order.
>>
>> I even suspect if I arrange them or refresh with F5 the next time I go
> back
>> in they do not 'remember' the correct order or have reverted to some
> random
>> order.
>>
>> It seemed to me that earlier versions of Windows appeared to do an
> automatic
>> refresh/sort as I never noticed this behaviour on older versions of
> Windows.
>>
>> I have tried 'Arrange Icons by Name' and also 'Auto Arrange' but I still
> get
>> instances where the sort order seems haphazard...
>>
>> Progress huh? ;^)
>>
>> Thanks & kind regards,
>> -=Glyn=-
>>
>> "Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A6B0CACA-A12D-4B57-873D-132170314DCE@microsoft.com...
>>
>>>New files shows at the bottom (I expect it there) if not I click view
>>>"Refresh".
>>>--
>>>Rey
>>>
>>>
>>>"Pheasant Plucker®" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi there,
>>>>
>>>>Using XP and have noticed that the default sort order is different to
>>
>> that
>>
>>>>of Windows 2000 and below.
>>>>
>>>>I have seen references to changing the sort order but that only seems to
>>>>apply to numbers and not letters?
>>>>
>>>>In XP for example if I add a new file into a folder that already
>>
>> contains
>>
>>>>files then it can be displayed anywhere, at the bottom or randomly
>>>>somewhere.
>>>>
>>>>This is annoying and when I next go into that same folder I have to hunt
>>>>around to find the file but in a large folder I sometimes miss it.
>>>>
>>>>In W2K & below the new file was automatically inserted in its correct
>>>>alphabetical sort order.
>>>>
>>>>I am guessing this behaviour can be changed but how?
>>>>
>>>>Maybe I have missed something here but why did MS change this behaviour?
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Thanks & regards,
>>>>-pp-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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