Thanks for the update!
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Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com
"mykee" <mykee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BB4192D9-71EC-461F-AAFB-0DE5B7ABBCCE@microsoft.com...
Finally some results.
In XP, the registry looked like what the article had shown but in my version
of Vista the keys under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\....\POLICY did not show \EXPLORER.
After creating the key "explorer" and then creating the DWORD value,
everything works fine.
Thank you.
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
> Works fine here, mykee. Important thing is that you need to create the value under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and not under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE area.
>
> See:
>
> Configure Windows Vista to use the sort order that is used by Windows 2000:
> http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/227/1/
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
>
>
> "mykee" <mykee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:572043F7-CF42-42CE-8E5F-95FBE7B4F768@microsoft.com...
> R.C.
> Is there similiar solution for Vista?
> The problem is the same in Vista but the registry solutions mentioned by MVP
> Ramesh and the KB article do not apply.
>
> "R. C. White" wrote:
>
> > 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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> > R. C. White, CPA
> > San Marcos, TX
> > rc@grandecom.net
> > Microsoft Windows MVP
> > (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)
> >
> > "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
> >
>