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Unless I'm totally missing something, maybe it was on XP, I thought I used to be able to do it on 10 also, but maybe not...How can I arrange sub folders in the order I want them? The only option now that seems to be working is one of the embedded options (by Name, Type...). If I try to move one then it tries to move the sub-folder to one of the folders I'm trying to move it between.
I have a school folder. There are several sub-folders within it. I'm trying to arrange them logically, which does not work out with Name, Type, Date, Size order. I have to be missing something. This seems like such a trivial, common thing, there is no way that this is not possible anymore. I just can't figure out why it won't work anymore.
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Hi S W6,
I am Dave, I will help you with this.
Some people indicate in a very old version of Windows it was possible to manually arrange files and folders, but I honestly do not remember that, if that was an option Microsoft must have removed it, because in Windows 7, 8 10 and 11 there is no option to manually arrange folder content.
The only option now to manually arrange those folders would be to add a numeric prefix like 001, 002...etc. to the name on the folder.
