If you're a freak like me and have a gazillion textures sitting on your hard drive, you've probably wondered why they don't sort like they should. That's because windows explorer is actually trying to be user friendly (the irony!); fortunately it's possible to go back to the user-unfriendly days (love 'em). It's as simple as adding one registry entry.
Run regedit and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
If there's a value called NoStrCmpLogical, set it to 1. If there's no such value, add it as a DWORD with said value. If it's already at 1, you're probably a bigger freak than me.
Restart explorer and behold:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.majhost.com%2Fgallery%2Fswm666%2FVarious2%2Fhex_sorting.jpg&hash=bb91fdbafe3ca93b9350afaa2cc760a91b7621ab)
Mmmm, nice sorting.
Cheers
Willy
Genius! The standard sorting system always bugged me...
Hmm... can't find the registry entry in Windows 8. Bummer!
Are you able to do it with this method (http://rsequence.blogspot.be/2012/06/turning-off-numerical-sorting-in.html)?
Cheers
Willy
Nope. It seems it can't find "gpedit.msc"
Hmm, Win 8 seems to have a completely different kind of explorer. Maybe someone who has the system may know something.
Cheers
Willy
This is exactly what I needed! Thank you.
Besides, in case the folder Explorer within Policies does not exist, you have to add this one, too.