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Hi, I am having difficulty in organizing a set of folders that I have created they have as their title the date which is in the following uk format dd/mmm/yyyy when I try and organize these folders so they appear in the correct date order i find that they are getting mixed up, can anyone help...

I have just bought a new computer with Windows 8.1 and I am confused and underwhelmed by 8.1. My main gripe is the totally uncontrollable start Screen. OK I can sort apps into groups and name the groups so that's a start. After getting apps into different groups I now set about sorting them...

Is it possible to sort your folders alphabetically while at the same time sorting your files on date? I want to do this(see picture)

Hi, I have a gargantuan wallpaper folder that I download wallpaper packs into every day. I've done this for years and that folder is... imposing to say the least. The problem is it's not sorted. The packs inside it are either a folder or an archive. I would like a program (PLEASE tell me one...

What is the way to add a custom property for folders? This is what I want to do: I have moved all my DVD's to my media pc. I would like to have a custom field for each movie folder where I can add tags like "Young kids" "Older kids" "Family" "Parents" etc so that I can sort the folders by those...

Hi I have this assignment for school, I think I did everything except the step number 9 and 11, it seems I do something wrong or not sure about that. How to SORT THE DATASHEET in descending order and how to Sort YOUR TABLE in ascending order? Is there difference how to sort "your table" and "the...

I have Win7 x64 SP1 with Classic Shell 4.0.2 I have ~ 70 firefox windows opened (minimized) Is there a way to sort these windows in the taskbar alphabetically by window title ?

I am in the midst of a several-day attempt to track down some strange behavior in Win7 Professional x64. My question today: When I open Task Manager to the Processes tab, the entries are still sorted by the last selection I made (which in my case is User Name). I want to see the processes in...

When "search" presents hundreds of results, how does one reorder them? For instance, I'd like them in alpha order, or by date. Right now I have no idea how they are default ordered. Joe

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I'm curious because when using a program I have for cataloging certain files that are contained within a nested set of folders, I always find the last file added at the very beginning of the list in only one of the folders. In every one of the other folders, the files are arranged...

Fixes an issue in which the sorted Cyrillic alphabetical order results are incorrect in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when you sort data that is in the Bulgarian language. Link Removed

so the other day, i got to messing around.... i tried in vain to sort my music folder by bitrate so i could convert some things. finally gave up as it's too stupid and sorted all my music in WMP by bitrate and did it from there. but now it's all kinds of messed up! 1. there's a "bitrate"...

Let me start off by saying that I have disabled auto arrange in my version of Windows 7, so I can drag folders anywhere I want. However, I've noticed that "sorty by" is not remembered. For example, lets say I drag a folder somewhere off the grid like show in this screenshot (Test1 is off the...

Has anyone found a way to sort files and folders alphabetically yet? I have my music on an external hard drive. I have a folder for every artist, and in those folders there’s a folder for each album. The only thing on this hard drive is music. In Windows XP, I could sort by name and show in...

I'll try to explain this as well as I can. I save a lot of folders on my desktop. For the most part they are sorted alphabetically, from A to Z, with no problem. For the last several months, if something is named numerically, they are saved backwards. In other words, if I have files named 001...

New items added to a shell namespace extension folder are not sorted in view windows when the namespace extension uses DefView. Link Removed

I have a lot of external drives connected to my computer (Windows 7 Ultimate) and am contently connecting and disconnecting external cards and devices and sometimes I have up to 22 connected devices. When I need to safely disconnect a device and open the "safely remove device" list, the devices...

every single morning i have to right-click the desktop -> "sort by" -> "type" i know this is trivial and i apologize, but it's very annoying. all the icons are haphazard, scattered, whatever... isn't there a setting or something somewhere that'll save it's settings for the next boot?

I would like to know how I can set the date modified in the folders to default from the latest to i.e the mosty current date to the earliest date Your assistance in this regard will be most appreciated