Windows geekery request

[lovingboth]

For some reason, the file open/save/whatever dialogue on my copy of Win2k has decided its default view should be to list files in descending order of size.

How do I persuade it to sort by name when it opens?

(Obviously, I can do view / details / click on the 'name' header to do this, but I want it to be the default again.)

Comments

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

There is somewhere in a view preferences dialog the option to "make all folders look like the current view".

Look at the view properties of the desktop, as well as those of the file browser.

[lovingboth]

This isn't getting Explorer to list files in the right order / style - I can do that (although it always takes a few goes to persuade it that, yes, I don't want to 'view as webpage' etc!)

It's the dialogue that pops up when you save or load a file in a typical program, asking you to select which file to open / what name to save it and where.

If you find a definitive solution

[kingginger.livejournal.com]

Let me know

I've found Win 2K does this every now and then, and I couldnt find a way to re set it.

Mine did it in reverse alphabetical - with the files listed and then directories.

Did my nut in!!

Re: If you find a definitive solution

[lovingboth]

I'm sort of glad it's not just me!

There must be a registry setting somewhere, but...