file sorting

Windows 11 users and tinkerers everywhere know the feeling: you pop open File Explorer, and—while it’s familiar as an old shoe—it’s got the feature set of, well, an old shoe. If you ever kicked the heel of File Explorer hoping a magical search filter or batch renaming tool would drop out, join...

How to Change the Downloads Folder on Your Windows 11 PC The Downloads folder in Windows 11 is where files from the internet and applications traditionally land. It’s tethered to your system drive by default—typically the C drive—which can cause quick space depletion for users with limited SSD...

Is it possible to force Winexplorer to have the files in the same place when I reopen the same window when I put them in my own order before? I tried it according to this tutorial - How To Disable Auto Arrange In Folders On Windows 10, but it only works 50% - after reopening the same folder, the...

Greetings, I need a Script that separates files According to destination folder name. Example if in the destination folder there is a folder named Paulo, it searches in the source folder where the files are located to separate files that have the name Paulo. Origin Paulo24567.mp4 Destiny...

I am running Win7 64 bit Ultimate. I need to sort and separate volumes of files and directories by date only. Is there a program that will do this? Thanks for any direction you might provide. Link Removed

In windows 8 I am not able to change video file's Rating (starts), I right click a file, the go to properties>Details I see the starts but I can not change them, I tried to allow all permissions. What should I do? I have tried rating in the Windows media player library, but when I rate a...

I am using WIN 7 Ultimate and have a folder (FOLDER-A) containing about 160 .HTM documents and their corresponding FILES folders from documents I have downloaded from the internet. I am trying to sort these by name within the containing folder (FOLDER-A) so that each .HTM document appears next...

I am a photographer and generate "raw" and JPG images. At a certain point in my workflow, I need to delete all the JPG images before proceeding. That's easy enough; in Windows Explorer, one can sort by type, then delete all the JPGs, or one could open up a command prompt in the directory and...

Hardware/Software . existing HP notebook with Win7 32bit Symptoms . to diagnose a virus attack, it helps to know, to the second, when a file was updated. With only a sorted ADMIN DIR output B 4 the restore, it could only log to the minute. Tho I eventually saw the files it created, seconds...

Hi all! I recently installed Windows 8. I noticed that at some point the media tags stopped displaying in Windows Explorer for media files such as mp3 and m4b. I am talking about such tags as "title" , "bitrate" and "length" for audio files, for example. Previously this data always displayed...

Hello Everyone I have a strange problem : my windows had a virus and after my antivirus fix and delete viruses this problem occurred that : Desktop positions and folder views and sorting files in any folders not saving , for example in my desktop I arrange manually my desktop's Icon but after...

Hi, Is there an easy way to sort files/folders using multiple criteria--say by size, date and folder for instance? A free utility perhaps? and/or An easy way to capture the data in Wins' file explorer (view=detail) that I can bring into EXCEL? Thanks, Rusty

Does anyone know how do I set the default program to open media files in Windows 7? On WinXP it was right click -> open with -> checkmark "set as default program for opening this type of file" -> double click program. I did the same thing on Windows 7 and it has absolutely no effect. I do NOT...

Hello , I hope I would get some help to my problem that is bothering me from a long time. I was using win xp before and i liked the feature show in groups when sorted alphabetically. It used to look like this groping for every single alphabet separately. But now in win 7 when ever i do this it...

Hi, I bough Win7 two days ago (Or was it three) Anyway I spend a lot of time sorting through pictures on my HDD and one thing I loved about Vista was the "Sort By" bar. You could sort files A-Z or Z-A by tags, by specific tags, by 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars, 5-1 rating, 1-5 rating you name it. So...

I posted this in the General section, but it seems the techies don't visit there! I'm using the 32 bit version of W7 and one thing I really can't stand (or figure out how to turn off) is the auto sorting of my files. I want to be able to move them around - within a certain folder - without...