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NinerSevenTango
After searching in vain for quite awhile for the fix for this little
annoyance, I found a similarly named thread from a while ago, that
contained wrong information.
Somehow or another, the sort order of the files can get changed in the
File Open Dialog Box, as well as any other common dialog box that lists
files based on the same control.
It is maddenly difficult to find the fix for this using Google.
Anyway, the fix:
Right click My Computer, choose Explore.
Click on the C: Drive in the left pane.
Click on the View Menu, then choose List.
Right click in the empty whitespace area in the right pane where the
files get listed.
Choose Arrange Icons By.
Pick "Name".
Verify files are sorted alphabetically. If not, repeat.
Press and hold the control key, then click on the "X" to close
Explorer.
Then you can reopen explorer and set whatever default view you want in
explorer.
The key here, is that the file open dialog box, and all other similar
controls, use the sort method saved when in "List" view. Nowhere else
have I seen this. If you do it using "Details" view, it won't fix the
dialog box sort order.
I post this in the hopes that it might show up in a Google search the
next time I screw it up and can't remember how to fix it.
The above might only be true for my computer, but I have verified it,
and finally squashed the little cockroach of a problem.
Cheers,
--97T--
annoyance, I found a similarly named thread from a while ago, that
contained wrong information.
Somehow or another, the sort order of the files can get changed in the
File Open Dialog Box, as well as any other common dialog box that lists
files based on the same control.
It is maddenly difficult to find the fix for this using Google.
Anyway, the fix:
Right click My Computer, choose Explore.
Click on the C: Drive in the left pane.
Click on the View Menu, then choose List.
Right click in the empty whitespace area in the right pane where the
files get listed.
Choose Arrange Icons By.
Pick "Name".
Verify files are sorted alphabetically. If not, repeat.
Press and hold the control key, then click on the "X" to close
Explorer.
Then you can reopen explorer and set whatever default view you want in
explorer.
The key here, is that the file open dialog box, and all other similar
controls, use the sort method saved when in "List" view. Nowhere else
have I seen this. If you do it using "Details" view, it won't fix the
dialog box sort order.
I post this in the hopes that it might show up in a Google search the
next time I screw it up and can't remember how to fix it.
The above might only be true for my computer, but I have verified it,
and finally squashed the little cockroach of a problem.
Cheers,
--97T--