Disabling auto arrange in Windows Explorer

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I am very, very annoyed with the automatic auto-arranging of files that the
Vista version of Windows Explorer does. It's making my job very difficult and
frustrating. In XP and previous versions the photos (or whatever) stayed in
the same position after renaming until you manually refreshed the view. I
can't find a way to turn it off the auto-arranging. Any suggestions?
 
Angelique said:
I am very, very annoyed with the automatic auto-arranging of files that the
Vista version of Windows Explorer does. It's making my job very difficult and
frustrating. In XP and previous versions the photos (or whatever) stayed in
the same position after renaming until you manually refreshed the view. I
can't find a way to turn it off the auto-arranging. Any suggestions?
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I forgot to add that I DID uncheck "auto arrange" under the View menu. This
does not changing anything! After reading a few websites, I think this
feature is called "auto refresh." Whatever it is, I want it off!

Angelique
 
IIRC, someone said the other day to sort by some other column, like Date,
rather than Name.
 
Angelique said:
I am very, very annoyed with the automatic auto-arranging of files that the
Vista version of Windows Explorer does. It's making my job very difficult
and
frustrating. In XP and previous versions the photos (or whatever) stayed
in
the same position after renaming until you manually refreshed the view. I
can't find a way to turn it off the auto-arranging. Any suggestions?
Click to expand...

In the alternative file manager XYplorer this behavior is optional. If you
uncheck the option "Resort list immediately after rename" it will not
happen.

Don
http://www.xyplorer.com/
 
Dave said:
IIRC, someone said the other day to sort by some other column, like Date,
rather than Name.
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That's only helpful if you want to sort by date!

Angelique
 
I am equally frustrated and cannot turn it off. I see where the auto-arrange
is located under the view menu in windows explorer, but it is greyed out.
How do I change it, I am an administrator and should have permissions. I
dont have any group policies (that I have created that would prevent this)

Anyone know?
 
Lotusbob said:
I am equally frustrated and cannot turn it off. I see where the auto-arrange
is located under the view menu in windows explorer, but it is greyed out.
How do I change it, I am an administrator and should have permissions. I
dont have any group policies (that I have created that would prevent this)

Anyone know?
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I took Don's advice (see above) and got Xyplorer. It has indeed solved this
problem for me, and it has other good features, too. I'm sure Microsoft won't
be happy to read this on their own forums, but it's their own fault. I
thought with Vista they had finally decided not to micro-manage the way we
use our computers, but I was tragically wrong. Apparently they decided that
we are not smart enough to choose when we want to refresh our folders.

Btw Don, if you're reading this, since your on-line help is gone, you need
to offer better tech support, at least by putting a moderator in your user
forum so that someone answers the questions when other users can't, or aren't
on for a day or so.

Angelique
 
Angelique said:
Btw Don, if you're reading this, since your on-line help is gone, you need
to offer better tech support, at least by putting a moderator in your user
forum so that someone answers the questions when other users can't, or
aren't
on for a day or so.
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Hi Angelique,

"on-line help gone"? Not sure what you mean... there's the XYwiki and the
user forum, both were never gone AFAIK. Forum questions are usually answered
very quickly by any of the power users that hang out in the forum
practically around the clock. If this does not happen, as indeed once in
your case, then only because nobody knows an answer, or because somebody is
taking a very long time thinking about an answer...

Don
 
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