How to Stop File Explorer Sorting by Week and Month

Anonymous
2019-07-26T21:53:02+00:00

After the recent update Windows file explorer is now grouping items by day, week and month. I do not want this. I want the old way back please. How do I get rid of this new sorting? I hope this is not going to be like what happened to media folders where they now display metadata columns instead of name, date, size, type and even if you change them the next time you open the folder it has reverted back to metadata columns.

Update: I worked out that Group By must be set to none. How do I make this default so it doesn't revert back? I'd also like to stop my media folders reverting back to the old way too so they show name, date, size, type instead of Artist, Album, Title etc

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Anonymous
2019-09-05T03:31:56+00:00

There is no bug.  Someone at Microsoft just managed to apply their default folder setting to everyone that installs the update.

To turn off file grouping feature:

  1. Open a folder that is Grouping by/sorting using week and month.
  2. Right Click in the folder
  3. Select 'Group by'
  4. Select '(None)'

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-09T21:29:57+00:00

    Two folders decided to GROUP my files.   You have to try different "blank" areas of the folder to "right click" and have the "Group By" show up, choose NONE.... 

    Was driving me nuts.

    Interesting display.. .but just choose "sort by date"..... another "improvement"

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-12T06:00:11+00:00

    I don't see "Group By" when I right-click on a folder.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-12T15:56:04+00:00

    I don't see "Group By" when I right-click on a folder.

    Not on a folder, in the background of the content pane:

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-29T00:13:16+00:00

    Thank you.  It is so insanely annoying that some programmer somewhere decides what's best for me and forces it on me and I have to figure out how to undo the unhelpful feature.  Obviously, like a rodent must incessantly chew, s/he has to continue to tweak things or he'll be out of a job.  Oops.

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