Force Small Icons folder view to sort downward in columns?


  1. Posts : 6
    7 Pro x64 (desktop), 7 Ultimate x86 (laptop)
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    Force Small Icons folder view to sort downward in columns?


    I've done a couple of searches for terms I thought might be relevant to my question but didn't turn up anything that looked helpful. I need Folder List view but badly want to use seven-forums' awesome auto-arrange solution, which won't work with the gutted win7 list view. I've been giving Small Icons a try as the closest thing to list view, but there's one problem with Small Icons that I find to be a deal-breaker: when Small icons has a big enough window to display columns, it doesn't list the items in order all the way down a full column and begin again at the top of the next column, like List view. Instead, Small icons sorts items _across_, in rows, and begins again at the next row.

    Unfortunately, although I've given it a good try, I find that it's far more intuitive for my eye to move down a column when dealing with discontinuous units of information (such as file names) than it is to move across rows, so I absolutely must find a way to change this or it's back to List view and (ugh) auto-arrange.

    I know the Windows GUI doesn't provide a way to do this, but is it possible with a registry hack? One of my web searches revealed ListView (GUI), which might enable me to use list view in such a way as to prevent auto-arranging, but my scripting ability is way too limited for me to jump into something like that without a couple of vacations' worth of spare time to do lots and lots of learning-curve work.

    Thanks much for either good or bad news re the Small-icons issue--I'd like to know either way.
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  2. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #2

    Curious, what is it that List view doesn't give you?
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  3. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
       #3

    list wont allow op to move files in any order he wants as he has used the disable auto arrange.

    im afraid thats just the way it is schmibble.
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  4. Posts : 6
    7 Pro x64 (desktop), 7 Ultimate x86 (laptop)
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thanks, booh. Appreciate the confirmation.
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