In message , Mayayana
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| However, the sorting in the _left_ pane, where the tree structure is
| shown, seems to be (increasing) name order only.
|
| Anyone know if it can be changed?
|

Isn't that what desktops and shortcuts are for?

I said, in the bit that you've snipped, that I neither needed nor wanted
to change the order in the left pane; I just wondered if you _could_. It
was just an idle wonder.

I've
never used the Folders Explorer Bar. I find it too tedious to
deal with all those tiny nodes. On XP and Win7-32 I have
a custom Explorer Bar with links to folders within folder
windows. On my desktop I have shortcuts to all drives
and several commonly used folders.

I think we may also be talking about different things; I was talking
about the left pane in a normal Explorer window. I'm not sure what the
"Folders Explorer _Bar_" is, but I don't think it's what I was talking
about.

I also have whatever I'm currently working on spread out
on the desktop. I use it just like a solid desktop, taking out
the various "papers" I need for a project and then putting
them away when I'm done. So it's rare that I need more
than 2-3 clicks to get to where I want to be. Best of all,
it's intuitive, custom design. The places I go most are the

Each to his own; I rarely use the desktop at all to store files (partly
I've seen too many people, when I was at work, who _left_ files all over
their desktop [I know that's not what you're doing - you said you "put
them away" when you're done], and partly because I know it's really a
folder on C:, which I try not to keep _my_ files on).

easiest to get to. The Folders Explorer Bar is just a generic
list of everything.

(See above re "Bar".)


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