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Windows sort folders differently now, and I would like the old behavior
Windows used to always show the subdirectories (aka folders) first, regardless of sort order. It seems that several years ago, this was changed. I would like the original behavior where folders are ...
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How to Sort and Move Files Based on their Extensions on Windows
I'm trying to sort and move files based on their extensions within Windows, and am following this tutorial using:
@echo off
for %%a in (".\*") do (
if "%%~xa" NEQ "&...
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How can I arrange arbitrarily folders in Windows 10?
I want to sort some music folders by the release date, so I was wondering if there's a way to edit the metadata of the folder, because looking on the sort options, there's a "year" column, ...
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How can I make new subfolders created in a directory inherit the parent folder's sort type as default (such as "date modified")?
So I have a folder within which new folders containing images are frequently created. These images are frequently updated, and I prefer to set them to sort by "date modified" so the most ...
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What order are wifi-networks displayed in windows?
When you open the wifi menu on Windows, the order of the networks seems random. What order are they meant to be in?
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How to modify search order for ALL folders
what I mean by this is when you right-click in a folder, there is an option "More" By default, the only time-based sorting is Date Modified which takes very long, sometimes half a minute and ...
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Windows 10 - Sort option acts differently between two folders
I have a folder where, when I sort my files by date modified descending, all the subfolders are at the bottom. Then, in another folder, it is also sorted by date modified descending, yet the ...
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Which file system sort order is fastest in Windows 10 for large libraries?
Which file system sort order is fastest to load in Windows 10 for large libraries?
My intuition always told me that sorting by date modified was the fastest one to load up.
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Display folders first in File Explorer search
Whenever I search for something (in this case "*") in File Explorer, folders appear mixed in with files:
Is there a way to make it display all folders at the top like it does outside of ...
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Applying View Options to Uploads
(First post here, so forgive me if I get anything wrong.)
I'm an artist, so I have a lot of image folders, and a lot of images in those folders. I order them by date to avoid confusion, but whenever I ...
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Save Recycle Bin view settings - Win 10
I want to always display deleted items sorted by Date Deleted (I am using detailed view). But whenever I open Recycle Bin it auto sorts by Name. When I sort it by Date Deleted and close the window, ...
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Windows Explorer filename sort order: why ×a before 'a?
Have a look at this filename sort order in Windows 10 Explorer:
The character ' is mostly sorted before ×. But why is it the other way around for 'a vs. ×a?
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Sort folders by custom value in Windows 10
I am currently cataloguing a large amount of family photos and I have gotten to a point where I would need to sort a lot of folders by a custom value.
From what I gathered on the internet, Windows ...
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"Date modified" of downloaded file is in the past - Windows 10
I like to order most of my folders by "date modified". But sometimes I will download a file with a timestamp in the past. This is very disruptive to me (I have to check chrome downloads to ...
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How to change the default sort order in Windows Open window?
How to change the default sort order in Windows Open window?
Example: Paint => File => Open => /* need to order by date by default */.
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