Comments on: Change the Windows XP File Sort Order

By: Rosco

Rosco — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:25:14 +0000

So much for intuitive sort order – files 10-test.txt and 10a-test.txt, which order would YOU sort them in? Now go check what order Windows sorts them in…

By: lee

lee — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:07:57 +0000

It is not there. on my computer the only things under polices are
NonEnum, Ratings, and System. I am using windows xp pro if that makes a difference and I was hoping to get this working but I am unable to follow these instructions.

By: Sterling

Sterling — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:53:30 +0000

THANK YOU!!! I was trying to print a group of JPGs out to a pdf file in sequence

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:41:06 +0000

This worked for me. It definitely made life easier when trying to sync with my Panasonic camcorder.

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By: Benóný

Benóný — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:18:07 +0000

Thx Sanctimonious Ape ;)

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:56:21 +0000

Santimonious Ape, I accidentally deleted the second comment of you belonging in this thread. It was early in the morning and I thought it was a dupe of the comment in the other post.

I recognized later that it belonged to this one. Sorry for that but I had no way to recover it.

Please be careful with those accusations the next time.

By: Sanctimonious Ape

Sanctimonious Ape — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:51:16 +0000

I can see deleting my previous comment if I had somehow been offensive, but other than perhaps causing you some minor embarrassment I cannot see how the action was justified. My comment could have been very useful to Benóný above.

To Benóný: Martin likes to do things “The Hard Way” (TM), and so would rather go through the registry to adjust things. Granted, it is – as he has (sort of) stated elsewhere – a good way to get to learn how the system ticks, but many of us just want to fix the problem and move on. He apparently deleted a post I made here which pointed out a much simpler way to do it, but evidently he doesn’t care for freedom of speech or alternatives being provided to “His Way” (and all that implies).

If by some miracle he manages to get over himself enough to allow this post through, then allow me to point you to M$’ PowerToys collection, which includes the essential “TweakUI” program. TweakUI allows you to adjust the sort order by going to the “Explorer” section and toggling the “Use intuitive filename sorting” checkbox. Get TweakUI here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

By: Benóný

Benóný — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:44:01 +0000

hmm.. still this isn’t working for me *-) I tried LOCAL_MACHINE ,CURRENT_USER and USER and once all at the same time and it still isn’t showing any difference *-)
btw, my pc sorts the 2000 way, maybe I XdN Tweaker or something like that is causing this.

By: Benóný

Benóný — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:39:24 +0000

ah, yes I see :)

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:33:20 +0000

USER is for the single user while MACHINE is for all users

By: Benóný

Benóný — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:54:30 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, but HKEY_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Policies\Explorer