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Old 07-06-2007   #2 (permalink)
R. C. White


 
 

Re: Sort by name doesnt sort correctly in my opinion

Hi, Douglas.

You might be interested in this page by MVP Ramesh:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/xpsortorder.htm

And in this KB article:
The sort order for files and folders whose names contain numerals is
different in Windows XP than it is in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319827/

RC
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Microsoft Windows MVP
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"douglasgblake" <douglasgblake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:84140F1A-498B-4070-9875-7984A9147822@microsoft.com...
> Explorer does not seem to sort files by name in the order I expect.
> e.g.
> 0x2A.txt
> 0x20.txt
> 0xA2.txt
> is the order shown but I expected item 1 to be after item 2.
> Doug Blake
> dblake@starbridgesystems.co.uk


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