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

Anonymous
2022-08-13T02:39:26+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-21T18:56:40+00:00

    Sorry, you'll figure it out, but the registry solution you describe will not work. Not with present Windows update. As soon as you restart, shutdown, anything you save will lose that. Also, it not working for you with pictures is a great example. This hack is not an OS system wide fix. Finally, you MUST refresh often. Disabling refresh will cause other issues. e.g. if you do not refresh, either manually or when it does automatically, you cannot put files into the trash, you can't delete them, your screensavers will not show or save correctly, it' so fraught with errors. It sucks, but again Windows shortsightedness andnot listening to people is wrecking computers.

    I continue to search and that hope someone ingenious programmer will come up with a permanent solution to disable auto arrange permanently and forever on the OS completely. (toggling on off of course is the holy grail, as they had it before!) I have all updates stopped now, keep pausing into future, until they absolutely won't turn on my computer. I don't ever want them to break more things and block your way back to better.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-21T18:43:24+00:00

    For excuses of Security?, safety?, whatever, they changed everything. Windows just plain got worse. Windows XP did all the things I needed. If they only updated any critical issues in XP that would have sufficed, but now it's a frustrating experience every single time I turn on this computer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-21T18:39:30+00:00

    Of course this is useless. The whole point of saving positions and locations of files is having them exactly there to easily find when you come back to them. And just to be sure, without "refreshing" the window or reopening, things will stay the same, for a moment. Then Windows does what It wants, not what you want.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-21T18:35:16+00:00

    Yes. Windows 10 1703 broke this (intentionally?) One cannot go back to earlier versions that worked perfectly, without messing other things up now. They trapped the users.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-21T18:32:24+00:00

    I completely agree. Manual sorting is crucial to me. Windows updates completely screwed it up.

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