1. How To Rearrange Documents In A Folder
2. How To Manually Arrange Files In A Folder Windows 7
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@iamtheky, there are two issues: Auto sorting in List view or Details view. And Auto Arrange in icon-based views like large icons, medium icons etc. I know how to disable auto arrange - that reg tweak is fairly well known. But I always use List view to minimize the amount of scrolling required as List View accommodates the maximum number of items on screen. The automatic sorting drives me insane.

Create a new folder and it jumps to the Ns. Rename something and it jumps. Copy a bunch of files and they get scattered due to the sorting instead of all appearing at the end.I think this is a really horrible behavior of Explorer. Other Explorer alternatives I triedincluding free and commercial ones don't have many Explorer features and shell extension specific features. I don't see how moving to Linux is going to solve my problem either.

Linux file managers are more of less the same as Windows third party file managers. I like Explorer except for this abomination which shuffles all my files and it is one of the reasons I haven't moved from XP on my main PC - although I know Windows 7 really well - no problem with 'migrating' if this issue is gone. All those reg tweaks simply disable auto arrange, not auto sort in LIST or DETAILS views. I am the who figured that out.If you don't want to do reg tweaks, there's also, to do it through a GUI.

But no fix for auto sorting. It is not a big deal, you can surely adapt to Windows 7 even with it. But it is the arrogance of Microsoft and refusal to fix issues like these that rages me. Millions told them not to cripple the desktop in Windows 8 and yet they did.

Hundreds of users are complaining about forced auto sort and auto arrange, yet they totally ignore it. As I said, I was requesting a simple fix to disable auto sort since the Longhorn betas when they made this change. When XP support ends, I will have to make a hard decision - either live with it on Windows 7 or find a suitable Linux distro replacement. It's a matter of principle for me - I don't like being dictated how to use my computer by a certain company that has turned evil in recent days. Edited June 5, 2012 by xpclient. When XP support ends, I will have to make a hard decision - either live with it on Windows 7 or find a suitable Linux distro replacement. It's a matter of principle for me - I don't like being dictated how to use my computer by a certain company that has turned evil in recent days.Off-topic, I know, but.I know that I'll still use XP even after support ends.

How To Rearrange Documents In A Folder

There are plenty of people who still use Windows 98, Windows 2000, etc. I honestly think people overreact at the EoS dates.And you could look at it from another angle. That company wasn't 'evil' when they created Windows XP! Edited June 5, 2012 by UltimateSilence.

All those reg tweaks simply disable auto arrange, not auto sort in LIST or DETAILS viewsI can't argue with your expertise, but it seems to work for me in a very simple DETAILS view test:This order is maintained once I have run the DisableWindows7ExplorerAutoArrange.bat file even after Explorer is closed and reopened. If I put back the default behavior by running the EnableWindows7ExplorerAutoArrange.bat file, the sorted list is enforced.Maybe you are talking about something else and I am misunderstanding?Cheers and Regards. ^^ First, I am no expert. But are you referring to the ability to drag to sort items?

I am not talking about that. I am talking about the case when a file operation like Rename, paste, extract from ZIP/RAR or create new makes the files sort.

Suppose, you rename a file, doesn't it get automatically sorted by name? Or you create a new folder or new document from the 'New menu'? I don't want it to get sorted immediately.

Or suppose a folder already has many files and you are watching that folder for any new files added to it by some program that writes to it. As soon as the files are copied to that folder while the folder's open, they get sorted and thus lost in the alphabetical sorting. In XP, if I renamed an item, it would stay in place and get sorted when I pressed Refresh or F5. Suppose I paste multiple files into%windir%system32, they get sorted at once. Because system32 is a massive folder with many files, if the file names of the ones I paste don't begin with the same letter, they get scattered due to the auto-sorting.

Here's a Windows 7 Taskforce quirk talking about the issue I mean:In this image, the files 'file1new.txt', 'file2new.txt' and 'file3new.txt' should appear after 'file8.txt' when I paste them. Only after a Refresh, they should get sorted. Otherwise, when I am dealing with huge numbers of files that don't fit in one view without scrolling, these files appear scattered/shuffled. Same problem if I extract some files from ZIP by doing 'Extract here'. The sorting makes them get all mixed up with files already in the folder. That drives me mad.

How To Manually Arrange Files In A Folder Windows 7

See what I mean? Edited June 5, 2012 by xpclient.

Is it at all possible to somehow disable the automatic folder refresh when I view the folder? For example, I'm viewing a folder Temp at my D drive. I have two files on the clipboard, and I paste them into this Temp folder. As soon as they are pasted, the folder view automatically refreshes itself, and sorts the files. I don't want this automatic business.

If I paste two files in to the folder, I expect them to remain the last files in the file list until I manually refresh the view or close and open it again. Anything I can do to make this stop? Hi guys,I have been searching for an answer to this myself and I HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER!!!!As far as I know, you can not do it using windows explorer. I have searched and searched and can't find an answer. So what I found was a program called Xplorer2.

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It works WAY better than windows explorer and THERE IS A SETTING THAT YOU CAN TURN OFF THE STUPID AUTOSORT. It works great in XP, Vista, and Windows 7. Best of all they have a FREE version that will do everything windows explorer will do and much more.When Microsoft creates a problem, look elsewhere for the answer.

Before I get my hopes up too much, does this really give the same behaviour as XP?Yes.As in: you can manually refresh and it sorts alphabetically,Yesbut it doesn't do it automatically when you didn't want it to happen?YesAnd hopefully somebody with Win7 or Vista can try this out and report back.Why not test it yourself? Install the free of charge virtual machine 'VMware Player 3'. Install your Windows 7 or Vista – you don't need a license key within the 30 day activation period. Then test it.