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

PS: I think that the confusion, maybe on my part, is that With XP you can turn on 'Thumbnails' and drag them about in any order. I did not close the folder to find out if it stuck, but I expect it would have done. But that is not what I want.

Hi, "do you mean drag the files manually into an order of your choosing" Yes. And I have just fired up my old Windows XP. And the>Arrange by is limed to>Name>Size>Type>Modified. Unless anyone can tell me how to 'manually drag the files into any order'.

It is a long time since I booted the laptop up, I was expecting to refuse to boot. It did make choose boot order etc.

Sorry, I must disagree. I cannot see any reason why a user would want to drag files anywhere in the folder. All that I want to do is to be able to arrange the files in a list in any order. The 'Name' prevents this. I still have a Window XP laptop and I do not remember ever being able to drag the files anywhere. AND these kinds of discussions to NOT help the case for moving the restriction, whichever one you or think it is.

Hi Ron.

There was nothing to agree or disagree with in my reply. I was simply stating how it used to work and how it works now. I'm trying to be neutral here. While I personally have no need for manual arrangement of files within a folder, some user are very passionate about that feature.

Please clarify what you mean by "All that I want to do is to be able to arrange the files in a list in any order". Do you mean sort by other properties, such as Date modified, or do you mean drag the files manually into an order of your choosing?

If it's the latter, that's exactly what we're talking about here and the last time that worked (i.e. manually drag files into an arbitrary order in Details or Icon view), without any registry fiddling, was Windows Vista. The last time it worked, with registry fiddling, and remembering the arrangement, was Windows 10 1703.

If it's the former (i.e. sort on other properties) that should always work. If that doesn't work, I can help you fix that.

The point is, if I've got a folder of 30 images and I want to drag a few around (into separate sections of the window) to see which ones I might want to keep/delete/swap, I can't do it. There's simply no reason whatsoever why anything in a folder should be auto-arranged if the user prefers not to do it that way. There's no need at all to remove that option from users. If a user doesn't mind auto-arrange, that's fine, but for those of us who prefer to be able to disable the feature, it's a right pain not to be able to do it.

Sorry, I must disagree. I cannot see any reason why a user would want to drag files anywhere in the folder. All that I want to do is to be able to arrange the files in a list in any order. The 'Name' prevents this. I still have a Window XP laptop and I do not remember ever being able to drag the files anywhere. AND these kinds of discussions to NOT help the case for moving the restriction, whichever one you or think it is.