order in left-hand (tree) pane?

In message , Char Jackson
writes:
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:27:12 -0400, GS wrote:

On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:52:47 -0400, GS wrote:
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I just drag-n-drop to arrange things how I want them ordered; - seems that
WE remembers the positions because any time I reopen it the positions
persist as I ordered them. IOW, the tree is CUSTOM ORDERED instead of
sorted by any default means (NOTE: the default sort persists within the
custom ordering of the tree nodes).

I just checked Windows Explorer in 10, 8.1, 7, and XP. None of them allowed
me to drag any of the entries in the left pane. Do you have any custom
software installed, or anything you might have done to enable dragging in
the left pane of WE? I must be missing something obvious, which wouldn't be
the first time.

Ok, I just verified that my experience has been with (and only applies
to) the
Child nodes under the *Favorites* node. Anywhere else I want nodes to
appear at
the topmost position under a parent node I use the underscore
character which,
by default, also follows normal sort order according to the 1st
character after
the underscore.

I apologize for causing any misleads!

No problem.

Thanks for clarifying! I've never found a use for the Favorites feature so
mine is empty. Thus, no dragging for me in there. I'm probably the only one
who was a bit confused.

You weren't the only one! I (OP) was confused too; any attempt I made to
drag things in the left pane just looked as if they were going to cause
the dragged folder to become a subfolder of one of the others (not
helped by the "helpful" tendency of Explorer [and other things] to
expand things, after a few seconds [usually just at the moment when I
drop what I'm dragging, so I have no idea where it dropped]. I've asked
before if anyone knows how to STOP it doing that, with no result). I
didn't say anything as I have Classic Shell, and wasn't sure if that was
influencing things; glad to hear it wasn't.

"Favorites" I've always assumed was just Internet-Explorer-speak for
bookmarks, as it once indeed was (and may still be); as such, I hadn't
even looked at it for ages (possibly years). To my surprise I don't
actually _have_ such a folder under C:\ or C:\Windows; I had one under
C:\ProgramData, but system told me I couldn't get at that. Ah, I must
have moved it at some time - I have it under D:\ (that's the one with
the star icon I was expecting); that does indeed seem to still be IE's
bookmarks (I'm on W7HP32). And I can't change the order of folders in
the left pane for that, either. [As I said, not that I want to; I just
wondered if one could.]
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