VanguardLH,

A lot of behaviors in Windows Explorer are hard coded (well, all
of them are but I mean in that you don't get any options to remove
some of the unwanted behavior).

:-) I was hoping that there would be a setting somewhere that I could
change, such as you can do with the NoStrCmpLogical registry setting. That
I currently do not know of such a possibility could just be a lack of my
knowledge in this regard. Hence my asking. Alas, you do not seem to know
of such a possibility either. Bummer ...

Perhaps a non-Microsoft file manager would provide more
sane sorting;

That would, just as with MS, fully depend on who's programming it. :-)

But yes, that would be a possibility. I could even have a go at it myself.
Just have to remember to use shlwapi's "C" variant of its StrCmp functions.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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R.Wieser wrote:

How do I get Windows to drop all kinds of fancy sorting rules and
revert to (something like) ASCII order

A lot of behaviors in Windows Explorer are hard coded (well, all of them
are but I mean in that you don't get any options to remove some of the
unwanted behavior). It will show .zip files as folders (unless you
deregister the zipfldr.dll). It will handle some "special" folders
differently; for example, as I recall, navigate to C:\Windows and double
click on the Fonts folder. It won't show the contents of the Fonts
folder within Windows Explorer but instead opens the font manager
dialog.

Perhaps a non-Microsoft file manager would provide more sane sorting;
e.g., FreeCommander, MultiCommander, Explorer++ (all freeware). There
are free editions of crippled paywa Xplorer2 Lite, XYplorer Free,
Directory Opus Light. I have not used any of them. Folks in the
alt.comp.freeware newsgroup might have some experience with them. Users
that don't like the behaviors or deficiences of Windows Explorer often
use a replacement.