you are ridiculous if you think people are going to do all that to get a sort that use to work without issue. i dont know who you are, but your support is the worse i have ever seen.
"File Explorer>View>Sort by" Not Working
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(I posted this before, but only one person responded. But unfortunately, they didn't have the solution.) The drop down list in File Explorer>View>Sort by doesn't work in some folders! This happened after my latest Windows 10 update; Windows 10, version 1903. Before that, it was fine. Would someone please help me?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2019-11-03T14:19:09+00:00 dear friend....
i was in your shoes...i suffered alot till i found a solution
the main problem is that make :
File Explorer>View>Sort by" Not Working...is that the file explorer is crashing: to solve it watch the tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8QSLu8ECdI
it's not my tutorial...but it works.
i hope u will find it useful .
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btbt 11,826 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2019-07-16T20:47:14+00:00 You can't compare numbered file names between Command Prompt and Explorer. When Explorer encounters a file name that begins with a number, by default it takes the whole number into account so it looks like this:
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That's proper numerical sorting, which is what you turned off.
Command Prompt's dir command sorts based on each individual character according to the ASCII table, making the above look like this:
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It is possible you had numerical sorting off before updating to v1903 and it got turned on again during the upgrade. Either sorting method is technically correct, and it's up to you to decide which one you want. It's also very possible the sorting algorithm got confused in some of the files as there's no delimiter character between the numbers and the letters. Definitely an interesting scenario and I'm going to try and reproduce.
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Anonymous
2019-07-16T20:19:37+00:00 I found this:
Using gpedit.msc, I enabled 'User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/File Explorer/Turn off numerical sorting in File Explorer'.
Don't know if this is truly the correct solution, but I do not observe the problem any more.
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Anonymous
2019-07-16T19:53:30+00:00 I performed all steps given.
The dism commands reported no errors.
sfc did report that some errors were fixed.
The other steps give no obvious result.
The batch file yielded the following output:
D:\Users\Public\Downloads>ClearTileCache.bat
SUCCESS: The process "explorer.exe" with PID 2536 has been terminated.
ERROR: The process "shellexperiencehost.exe" not found.
None of steps has corrected the problem. This problem only appeared after I updated to version 1903.
To illustrate, in File Explorer:
In the shell:
As you can see, the shell properly sorts file names. File Explorer, however, does something completely weird (parts are sorted correctly and then the rest, who knows).