Please bring back the ability to freely arrange icons within folders "DISABLE AUTO ARRANGE"!

For me it is different. I need to prepare lists of documents/Pdfs to be converted into one PDF list that can be bookmarked etc. But I need to arrange the documents/pdf in a particular order. I need to keep adding to the list. The documents are not in any of the options provided by Microsoft. I can of course number them sequentially but then if I need to add another document I need to renumber the whole list. The only saving grace is that Adobe and Foxit does allow users to list the pdf freely. Microsoft need to get into the real world of work!!

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Meantime, from File Explorer View tab you can set your files to Sort by your preference like Alphabetical order so they are easier to find.

You seem to be missing the point, Greg. Think of a folder like a toy box. Now, I DON'T want any of my toys in the box arranged AT ALL. In XP I can put two marbles over in this corner and they STAY where I put them. I want to put 3 flashlights and a toy wheel in the middle. I want to put my teddy bear in this area today and another area tomorrow. Now,again, I DON'T WANT ANY ARRANGEMENTS OF ANY OF MY TOYS. This was automatic and the default in XP. Windows 10 took away the ability to choose "NONE" for autoarrange so EVERY folder MUST be arranged even if you don't want it to be arranged...your only choice is date, name, size, etc, but IT MUST BE ARRANGED (because Microsoft has gone fascist and the trains MUST run on time!) Microsoft, put the "NONE" choice BACK into the autoarrange options and half of your customers will stop thinking of you as autoarrange fascists.

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.

Please, please nobody come back about desktop icons. This thread is about the ability to list files freely in any order, that is, not in date order, date modified, or any other order fixed by Microsoft

This is what it is about: Why can't users arrange their files in the order this want?