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Subject: Re: Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-")
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VanguardLH,

> A lot of behaviors in Windows Explorer are hard coded (well, all
> of them are but I mean in that you don't get any options to remove
> some of the unwanted behavior).

:-)  I was hoping that there would be a setting somewhere that I could
change, such as you can do with the NoStrCmpLogical registry setting.   That
I currently do not know of such a possibility could just be a lack of my
knowledge in this regard.  Hence my asking.  Alas, you do not seem to know
of such a possibility either. Bummer ...

> Perhaps a non-Microsoft file manager would provide more
> sane sorting;

That would, just as with MS, fully depend on who's programming it. :-)

But yes, that would be a possibility.  I could even have a go at it myself.
Just have to remember to use shlwapi's "C" variant of its StrCmp functions.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> schreef in berichtnieuws
dlvtmkFq8phU1@mid.individual.net...
> R.Wieser wrote:
>
> > How do I get Windows to drop all kinds of fancy sorting rules and
> > revert to (something like) ASCII order
>
> A lot of behaviors in Windows Explorer are hard coded (well, all of them
> are but I mean in that you don't get any options to remove some of the
> unwanted behavior).  It will show .zip files as folders (unless you
> deregister the zipfldr.dll).  It will handle some "special" folders
> differently; for example, as I recall, navigate to C:\Windows and double
> click on the Fonts folder.  It won't show the contents of the Fonts
> folder within Windows Explorer but instead opens the font manager
> dialog.
>
> Perhaps a non-Microsoft file manager would provide more sane sorting;
> e.g., FreeCommander, MultiCommander, Explorer++ (all freeware).  There
> are free editions of crippled payware: Xplorer2 Lite, XYplorer Free,
> Directory Opus Light.  I have not used any of them.  Folks in the
> alt.comp.freeware newsgroup might have some experience with them.  Users
> that don't like the behaviors or deficiences of Windows Explorer often
> use a replacement.

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