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I need to change specific view setting in Explorer not found in Options

Anonymous
2024-11-08T13:22:36+00:00

With latest Windows, when I open in Explorer I noticed that the files and folders are sorted by "today" or "previous" or "A-H" and then "Q-Z". How I can remove this from the view? It is very annoying and visually disruptive? There is nothing in the Options to alter this setting. Honestly, not sure what the purpose of this is? The beauty of Explorer is that can sort by "name" or "date modified" or "file type". Adding these index headers is just redundant and ridiculous.

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  1. EmilyS726 225.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-11-08T16:52:53+00:00

    You are welcome. If all is good feel free to mark the answer for this thread, or let me know if you need anything else from me.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-08T16:33:23+00:00

    Strangely enough while that option was not there before, it was there now. Not sure what is going on. Hopefully, I won't have the same issue again. Thank you for your help anyway.

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  2. EmilyS726 225.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-11-08T14:37:41+00:00

    The none will not be an option if Group By is not currently in use. Can you tell me which folder you are currently in when you tried to do this? If you don't mind, can you share a screenshot, where I can see the group by section (like the today, yesterday) or name A-H, etc like you described, and then show me your Group by option after you click on Sort. That way I can have a better picture of what else might be missing here. Thanks!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-08T14:19:57+00:00

    There is no option for none and for the record, I did not have this problem with previous version of Windows.

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  4. EmilyS726 225.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-11-08T13:55:24+00:00

    Hello, this is Emily.

    Looks like the Group by was enabled. See my screenshot. You can go to Sort > Group by > none to turn it off.

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