File Order

[Guest]

I've been looking for an answer to my problem everywhere but cannot find a
solution.

What I want to achieve is to change the file ordering in Windows 2000 so
that it appears in a more logical format in the way Windows XP does, so that:

file_1
file_10
file_2

Becomes:

file_1
file_2
file_10

Is there a way that this can be accomplished?

 

[Eric McG]

Sorting is normally accomplished from left to right. In order for your examples
to sort correctly you must pad the numbers with zeros, as such:

file_001
file_002
file_010

I'm not aware, nor can I verify, that Windows XP works any differently than
Windows 2000 in this regard.

 

[Bob I]

The "XP order" is a "new ordering system" that is only in XP. There is a
way of turning it back off in XP, but this "order by number" as opposed
to straight character sort is only in XP.