Ask the Doctor: Out of Order
Posted 04/29/09 at 02:33:56 PM by The Maximum PC Staff
In Win XP, folders automatically display in Explorer in alphabetical order. I want to order folders chronologically by calendar month, i.e., January, February, March, etc., but Explorer displays them alphabetically. Is there a way to change the order that folders are displayed?
—Dave Schaffer
You’d think so, Dave, but we’ve found the easiest way (and the way we use on our production server) is to simply put each month’s numerical value before its name, thus: 01 January, 02 February, 03 March. It’s not fancy, but it works.
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but what are the command
Submitted by FRAGaLOT on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 2:41am
but what are the command line switches you can give windows explorer so it sorts the files that way? I think that's what the original question was. But searching MS knowladge base brings up ziltch.
Sort By Date
Submitted by MvanA on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 11:46am
Unless you modify last months data for some reason you can sort by date modified and get your folders in the order you want them. That's how I keep my reports in order at work.
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