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| | More Weird file name sorting order in folder explorer window Back in March of 2008, I started a thread that dealt with the weird sorting order of files names in windows explorer. http://groups.google.com/g/78d7fef5/...63e6f1c56cd39e It dealt with file names that were made up of hexadecimal characters, like: 0000.txt 00A0.txt 0A00.txt 000A.txt This sorted order seemed somewhat weird, but in the course of that discussion a simple registry entry was posted that seems to fix that problem. Now I find a similar class of weird sorting: file whose names are only characters in the range a/A to z/Z and files with a single quote (') prepended to the same name, are sorted with the single quote being ignored some of the time. goodbye.txt 'goodbye.txt hello.txt 'hello.txt The registry fix posted in that thread fixes the sort order for the hex-numbered files, but does not fix the sort order for the '-prepended files. Does anyone have a fix for this? Also, has anyone come up with a scripting way to make the registry change apply to newly opened windows-explorer windows without rebooting? Thanks, -Paul Randall |
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