Any way to prevent Windows 11 beta File Explorer from grouping files?


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Ever since I got on the beta version of windows 11, it been automatically grouping files in certain folders, and folders within that folder. For example, my Downloads folder. I keep setting the Grouping to None, but it still continues to group the files and folders after restarting explorer, or the pc.

I'm used to sorting files by name, and then date, so this is making it complicated to find certain files that i'm looking for.

It's very annoying. Does anyone know of a way to disable this? or fix it? I've never had this problem in Windows before.

I'm currently on Windows 11 Pro 22H2 22622.290

thanks

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is it only the downloads folder doing it or others as well

 

I know they made a change a while back to switch the default of the download folder to sort and group by date modified so it's always the most recent on top and different time periods are easily identifiable being the downloads folder; so it's possible that function is being retriggered by some bug if that's the only folder doing it to you.

  On 12/07/2022 at 13:47, Brandon H said:

is it only the downloads folder doing it or others as well

 

I know they made a change a while back to switch the default of the download folder to sort and group by date modified so it's always the most recent on top and different time periods are easily identifiable being the downloads folder; so it's possible that function is being retriggered by some bug if that's the only folder doing it to you.

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i thought maybe i saw it else where, but really only in the downloads folder. 

 

might there be a regedit tweak or something I could do? 

 

thanks for the reply.

  On 12/07/2022 at 22:22, o0o said:

i thought maybe i saw it else where, but really only in the downloads folder. 

 

might there be a regedit tweak or something I could do? 

 

thanks for the reply.

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not sure on a fix; first I've heard of that flag re-triggering itself over and over; the download folder sorting/grouping was only supposed to change on it's own once back when the update in question was applied and that was early last year some time if I remember correctly.

 

I'd recommend submitting to the Feedback Hub if you haven't already or see if there's already a similar issue posted there. Could be a new bug that you're witnessing in the Beta channel.

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