Hexadecimal sorting in Windows

[Swordmaster]

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:




Mmmm, nice sorting.



Cheers
Willy

[MandelSoft]

Genius! The standard sorting system always bugged me...

Hmm... can't find the registry entry in Windows 8. Bummer!

[Swordmaster]

Are you able to do it with this method?


Cheers
Willy

[MandelSoft]

Nope. It seems it can't find "gpedit.msc"

[Swordmaster]

Hmm, Win 8 seems to have a completely different kind of explorer. Maybe someone who has the system may know something.


Cheers
Willy

[memo]

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.