Windows Explorer Auto Arrange - Disable

Oh that's well cool then thanx Brink. Sorry I was a bit grotty but I am finding elephant traps round every corner in W7. I mean everyone slagged off Vista but I have has zero problems with that @work!

In the meantime I had actually devised a workaround for this.

Many of the complaints are from people who are staging slideshows/presentations but want to retain the file names without an 01-, 02-, 03- etc unprofessionally tagged to the (presentation-visible) filename, which is also time-consuming.

Well the secret is in the file itself.

Say you have five pix of flowers and you want2 present them in the order dahlia, tulip, anemone, rose, friesia. W7 won't have it! It insists on anemone,dahlia, friesia, rose, tulip (alphabetical)!

Ok..... right click each file and select details.
Each file has several options... title, subject, tags, comments are the 1st 4.
Choose any one; say, "title".
Input 0100 in dahlia, 0200 in tulip, 0300 in anemone, 0400 in rose and 0500 in friesia.
Then open the containing folder and right-click the whiteboard.
click "sort by" and select "more" at the bottom
scroll down the drop-down list till you find "title", tick the box and click ok.
Now right-click the whiteboard again, select "sort by" and then select "title".
Hey look! Your flowers are bedded in the right order.
You are now set up for life because (and here is the trick)
If the next time you open the folder you want "rose" 2nd instead of 4th, just change the title in that file to, say, 0150.
Now it appears correctly between dahlia (0100) and tulip (0200). That is why I spaced the "titles" 100 apart 2 leave space so that, almost forever, you only have2 amend the file(s) you want2 move rather than the whole lot.
You can always rumble the vets who used2 program basic, can't you, LOL?

You could always use "subject" for your second arrangement, "tags" for your third, etc etc etc and therefore always have them to call up with a simple "sort by".

Is that so cool it's got ice crystals?

Anyhow I'll now try your fix, because it's bound2B more systemised... well mayB 2moro, it's nearly mice n pumpkin time now!

Thanx Jon

No problem Jon. I hope it works the way you like in other than the library locations. :)

Hello Setchan, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Double check to make sure that after you have downloaded and merged the Reset_All_Folders_To_Default_Folder_Views.reg file download in OPTION TWO that you restart the computer afterwards.

Setchan,

Actually yes, since the REG file wipes out all set folder views and restores them to default after a restart. There's just no way for auto arrange to remain disabled after merging the REG file.

Are you logged in an administrator account when you merged the REG file?

Could you post screenshots of what didn't change highlighted to see if something may stand out as why?

The REG file deletes the keys below, and is what resets the folder views.

Did you use any other method from another site to disable auto arrange than the tutorial here?

Did you right click on the REG file, click on Merge, and approve (run, yes, yes, ok), then restart the computer immediately afterwards without opening anything else?

Code:

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]

Ah, ok. The method used to disable "Full Row Select" in Windows Explorer has a few quirks that come with it, and is why we do not have it here.

Since I do not know what all changes that one or any other that you may have used made to the registry, you could do a system restore using a restore point dated before you applied these to undo them.