Annoying problems with XP Pro.

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colin.

Good day. I run XP Pro on my laptop and ever since it was bought (and even
after a reinstall) it has exhibited several petty but really annoying
problems.

Firstly, I have to re-enable the quicklaunch bar after EVERY reboot. I mean
every single damn time. I cannot get to the bottom of this.

Secondly, I am a frequent user of "tree" and "dir" to create lists of dir
contents. Big deal, you may think. Well it is when the lists are no longer
created in alphabetical or numerical order; they are seemingly at random,
for the most part. I realise that tree outputs the contents of the dir
according to how they are shown, but even when they are shown as "sort by
name" the output of tree/dir is odd. The first few items are all mixed up,
then for the most part the middle things are listed in order. Only recently
has it started behaving like this, and now whenever I add contents to a dir
they appear at the END of the dir list, regardless of their numeric or
alphabetical place.

This is really starting to irritate me seriously.

I do, of course, ensure that my computer has the latest Windows updates at
all times, and is virus-free.

Should anyone have any ideas as to what may be happening, and how to resolve
it, I'd be most grateful to hear.

Thanks in advance.

Colin
 
colin. said:
Good day. I run XP Pro on my laptop and ever since it was bought
(and even after a reinstall) it has exhibited several petty but
really annoying problems.

Firstly, I have to re-enable the quicklaunch bar after EVERY reboot.
I mean every single damn time. I cannot get to the bottom of this.

Secondly, I am a frequent user of "tree" and "dir" to create lists of
dir contents. Big deal, you may think. Well it is when the lists
are no longer created in alphabetical or numerical order; they are
seemingly at random, for the most part. I realise that tree outputs
the contents of the dir according to how they are shown, but even
when they are shown as "sort by name" the output of tree/dir is odd.
The first few items are all mixed up, then for the most part the
middle things are listed in order. Only recently has it started
behaving like this, and now whenever I add contents to a dir they
appear at the END of the dir list, regardless of their numeric or
alphabetical place.

This is really starting to irritate me seriously.

I do, of course, ensure that my computer has the latest Windows
updates at all times, and is virus-free.

Should anyone have any ideas as to what may be happening, and how to
resolve it, I'd be most grateful to hear.

Thanks in advance.

Colin
Click to expand...

Try dir /? The /O switch will sort the dir command e.g dir /ogn sorts the
output by name putting directories at the top of the list.

Kerry
 
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