Well, at least Microsoft would be happy with your contribution.
Please bring back the ability to freely arrange icons within folders "DISABLE AUTO ARRANGE"!
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I just want to "disable" confounding Auto Arrange files within folders in Windows 10. I can't understand that when you leave file/folder icons in the position and order that you want and then Windows decides to mix them up. I'm continually wasting time trying to find lost data. It's ridiculous. Does anyone know or can create something that just allows you to arrange or sort files within folders, and Leave them alone, without the OS messing them up?
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Windows 7以降廃止された「アイコンの自動整列」の解除、「等間隔に整列」ができます。
You can cancel the "automatic arrangement of icons", which has been abolished since Windows 7, and "arrange at regular intervals".
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2023-04-23T12:49:34+00:00 Here is another long thread about same thing: How to manually arrange files in a folder on windows 10 (Disable Auto Arrange) (techsupportall.com) (NOTE suggestions do not work or at least not now)
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Les Ferch 10,361 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2023-01-10T21:05:19+00:00 Hi, this thread is not about desktop icons, although people keep introducing them. This thread about the freedom to arrange files in folders, which is impossible. It was possible with Office 2003.
Folder icon arranging is a Windows File Explorer feature, but you may have noticed/used it when you were in an open/save dialog back when Office 2003 was released. Windows XP was the current OS at that time and it provided the feature to arrange icons freely in folders. As mentioned previously in the thread, the feature was still built in, and could be enabled via a simple registry setting, until it was mostly killed off with the release of Windows 10 1703 in 2017. By "mostly" I mean that you can still enable free arranging of icons in folders, but their positions won't be remembered.