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Geek Culture / Weird sort order in XP

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Phaelax
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Posted: 6th Nov 2009 21:12
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Not sure how many are bothered by this or who even noticed, but it irritates me how XP sorts filenames differently than 2k did. It ignores leading zeros and sorts numbers like numbers rather than string value. So 300 would be sorted after 60.

XP
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5
60
300

It should be: 300,5,60 as it would if they were alphabetized as strings.

It's very irritating to me, but after a quick seach there is surprisingly a very simple fix for this by adding a new registry entry.

So in case anyone else finds this XP change annoying (yes I know im years behind) I thought I'd share the fix.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319827

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zeroSlave
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Posted: 6th Nov 2009 21:26
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Tweak UI also gives the option to change from intuitive filename sorting to literal sorting. Just thought I would share.

[me]<3s Tweak UI[/me]

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Phaelax
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Posted: 6th Nov 2009 21:41
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Cool, I'm looking at the MS PowerToys now.

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zeroSlave
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Posted: 7th Nov 2009 03:59
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Ya, it rocks. I found it because I was looking for a way to remove the little arrows on shortcut icons many years ago. Also, for getting rid of the recycle bin on my desktop. I always shift+delete everything so, I find the recycle bin useless.

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