On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:57:58 -0000, Tim wrote:

Big Al wrote in :

On 12/27/18 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I've resorted to the brute force method: Put numbers in front of the
names. 001 002 003 etc.



I too have had to resort to that solution. Just try to put enough zeros in
to handle any future growth. It is a real pain to have to go back through
and add them after the fact.

Sometimes (50% chance) you can bulk rename in Windows. Select say 100 files, then type in a name "France". They will all get called France 1, France 2, etc.
Sometimes a command prompt can do something similar, using asterisks. Like "ren France*.jpg Germany*.jpg"

I know you said the slides are dark, but have you tried a lighted slide
viewer? In these days of digital photos, one might be hard to find, but it
beats holding each slide up to the light or in front of a light to see what
it is.

Used to have one of those as a kid. My parents probably still have it. Operated with 3 (or 4) C cells. The 4th cell was switched in when you wanted it brighter. This made the cells end up with different charge levels and leakage occurred!