Disabling auto arrange in Windows Explorer

IIRC, someone said the other day to sort by some other column, like Date,
rather than Name.




"Angelique" <Angelique.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am very, very annoyed with the automatic auto-arranging of files that the
> Vista version of Windows Explorer does. It's making my job very difficult
> and
> frustrating. In XP and previous versions the photos (or whatever) stayed
> in
> the same position after renaming until you manually refreshed the view. I
> can't find a way to turn it off the auto-arranging. Any suggestions?

"Dave" wrote:

> IIRC, someone said the other day to sort by some other column, like Date,
> rather than Name.

That's only helpful if you want to sort by date!

Angelique



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> "Angelique" <Angelique.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:88C1FFBD-18FD-453F-802A-9D0F56120D1A@microsoft.com...
> >I am very, very annoyed with the automatic auto-arranging of files that the
> > Vista version of Windows Explorer does. It's making my job very difficult
> > and
> > frustrating. In XP and previous versions the photos (or whatever) stayed
> > in
> > the same position after renaming until you manually refreshed the view. I
> > can't find a way to turn it off the auto-arranging. Any suggestions?
>
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"Angelique" <Angelique DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:88C1FFBD-18FD-453F-802A-9D0F56120D1A@microsoft.com...
>I am very, very annoyed with the automatic auto-arranging of files that the
> Vista version of Windows Explorer does. It's making my job very difficult
> and
> frustrating. In XP and previous versions the photos (or whatever) stayed
> in
> the same position after renaming until you manually refreshed the view. I
> can't find a way to turn it off the auto-arranging. Any suggestions?

In the alternative file manager XYplorer this behavior is optional. If you
uncheck the option "Resort list immediately after rename" it will not
happen.

Don
http://www.xyplorer.com/

I am equally frustrated and cannot turn it off. I see where the auto-arrange
is located under the view menu in windows explorer, but it is greyed out.
How do I change it, I am an administrator and should have permissions. I
dont have any group policies (that I have created that would prevent this)

Anyone know?

"Angelique" wrote:

> I am very, very annoyed with the automatic auto-arranging of files that the
> Vista version of Windows Explorer does. It's making my job very difficult and
> frustrating. In XP and previous versions the photos (or whatever) stayed in
> the same position after renaming until you manually refreshed the view. I
> can't find a way to turn it off the auto-arranging. Any suggestions?

"Angelique" <Angelique.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Btw Don, if you're reading this, since your on-line help is gone, you need
> to offer better tech support, at least by putting a moderator in your user
> forum so that someone answers the questions when other users can't, or
> aren't
> on for a day or so.

Hi Angelique,

"on-line help gone"? Not sure what you mean... there's the XYwiki and the
user forum, both were never gone AFAIK. Forum questions are usually answered
very quickly by any of the power users that hang out in the forum
practically around the clock. If this does not happen, as indeed once in
your case, then only because nobody knows an answer, or because somebody is
taking a very long time thinking about an answer...

Don