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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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Yes, also verified here. Registry fix I see is perhaps a year or two old now. Does not stick. Another exercise in futility. Only fix seems will have to be a total system wide operating system change. Not a patched couple of folders that does not stay. Just a really ignorant omission and I have no idea why they would exclude it. Almost as if the Microsoft developers aren't smart enough to make it work again, aren't savvy enough to figure it out. Yet it DID work. They simply broke it. Amazing.
Renaming files is certainly not the answer to what they had before that was a logical and needed feature. Any renaming a file can always sort in alpha or numerical sorting, but does not help this issue at all. Honestly just the stupidest design ever. When I ever have to do something on Windows now, I immediately have to save them, transfer them to my Mac computer, then put them in the exact order and placement that I want, which it keeps, and they will stay there always, in perpetuity!
So ridiculous. It will be a grand day in the world when some innovative person can figure this Windows OS problem out and fix it forever. I hope this day comes very soon.
This is absolutely absurd that they removed this in Windows 11. Windows is getting worse and worse with every iteration, I have no idea what they were thinking. Absolutely ridiculous that you can't even move files around to sort them.
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This is absolutely absurd that they removed this in Windows 11. Windows is getting worse and worse with every iteration, I have no idea what they were thinking. Absolutely ridiculous that you can't even move files around to sort them.
This is not a recent change. The feature was removed from the interface long ago (Windows 7 IIRC) and was removed as a feature that could be enabled via a registry setting as of Windows 10 1703 (April 2017).
I have posted this thread on the Microsoft Feedback, I will not hold my breath: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/f958f68c-d51c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8143
PS: It went onto OneDrive because I could not find anywhere else to post it. If anyone would like to make a better link, please do so.
