file name order/file name sort

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In Windows XP, Windows Explorer, when the files are sorted by name, numbers
are sorted by value, so that you might have
A013
A14
A015

There is supposed to be a fix to the registry.
(see www.support.microsoft.com/?id=319827)
I made the change to my registry, and it seems to have fixed the numeric
sorting problem, but now it treats hyphens as if they aren't there; not as if
they are spaces or nulls, but as if they were deleted entirely. Who knows
what else this "fix" messes up. Eg., I now get files in the following order:

RDH-109
RDH-218
RDH-370
RDH-428
RDHA201
RDHA236
RDH-C530
RDHDBCNT
RDH-U94
RDHXWAHF


Does anybody know a fix that will end up with the file names in order simply
considered as text strings?

Thank you
 
It turns out that Excel and Word ignore hyphens when sorting, too. So if I
were just working with Office files, it wouldn't be quite so bad. But I'm
doing a conversion from a product which uses a normal sort, and trying to
compare files. It seems to me that it would have been automatic to have
straight ASCII sorting as at least an option. Is this caused by the age
discrimination that throws away the experience that would have seen this as
soon as it was planned?
 
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