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In which order does Windows Explorer sort folders when sorting the results of the search by size?
The files are sorted by size but not the folders, so I wonder how Windows Explorer decides the ordering of folders when displaying them. I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
Example of sort by size:
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Ordering files alphabetically is not respected in Windows Explorer [duplicate]
I've a folder with a file list.
All files have the same root name but change in order on its refere date, as follow:
This is my wished alfabetically order:
MyName - 202003.pdf
MyName - 202006.pdf
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Same Icon on a folder and its nested sub folder in Windows 7
Does Window 7 provide such a feature where the same Icon can be applied to folders nested folders? Even if a new folder is created it should have the same folder.
The images are shown of all folders, ...
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Sort by Type → folder and all its sub folder
Below is a GIF that shows sort by type on a subfolder of the main folder. The main folder has many subfolders and deeper layers can the sort by type be applied in one go on the entire folder and its ...
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MS Excel 365 Not Sorting
I have recently started experiencing a weird bug with excel, for some reason it has stopped sorting columns. It does not matter the way I try to sort, it just does not do it, however, filtering does ...
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Sort and move folders and contents by a criteria
Using Windows 7
I have a folder with several thousand sub folders. Each sub folder may have subfolders of files. A Music Library Might be a good example.
I need to sort the top most subfolder and ...
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Windows 10 apps "Sort by Install Date" are not sorted by time
In all previous versions of Windows, when you sorted the installed programs by "date installed," it would sort them exactly like that - by date and TIME installed.
In Windows 10, it takes all the ...
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How to get files ordered by name with `dir`?
This used to be really easy in the old OS's.
dir /o:n >> list.txt
for %a in (`list.txt`) do copy %a ..\ordered
And voila, there was the list of files in the other folder, created in the sorted ...
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How to 100% set a default view and sort order for all folders in Windows 7 x64
Now, I'm experienced with SE. Questions similar to this will have been asked before.
HOWEVER, (notice the bold style) this is a question about displaying a list of files with columns for name, date, ...
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Sorting folder and file shortcuts by "Date Modified" in Windows 7 is broken
How can I get Windows to sort folders when you click on the "Data modified" column header?
It is not, when shortcut folders and files are in the list. How can I fix this, or is this a bug in ...
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Finding most recent files in a partition on Windows
I am using Windows 7, and my C partition is almost full. What i want is to find the most recently added files in this partition. How can I do this?
Alternatively, the question can be formulated as: ...
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How to add a default sorting order in Windows 7?
In the folder sub folders I want to add "sort by date created" in the sort by menu.
I went into more and selected sort by date created to show in the sorting menu.
But its only doing it on the ...
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Windows 7 or 10: Explorer Sort Order - distinguish between normal Explorer vs. Open-File/Browser windows
Is there a way to make Windows (7,8,10,whatever) remember a different sort-order for displaying your files in regular Explorer windows vs. open-file/file-browser dialog windows?
To give an example. ...
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How to mass format window files sorting and view style for my entire computer?
When going into a folder of a window, I usually do 1) right click > view > list, then 2) right click > sort by > type.
It gets annoying when I have to do this every time I am in a new folder, and ...
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Windows Explorer - Treating cameras/Android file systems like disks and sort by date
My Android current, and previous, Samsung phones identify as a camera (technically a media device) to Windows. They do this because they have internal flash and to mount the file system to another ...
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