Windows 7 Explorer cannot sort files alphabetically

Question

I use sort by + name, and explorer cannot sort my files by name. How can they screw up something so easy?

Is there any magic registry way to do this, here is the exp

Answer 1

It's not screwed up at all, it's by design.

There are a lot of things to consider when sorting, for example non-English languages can do sorting completely differently. The DIR command however ignores all this and does a 'stupid' sort. Explorer is for end users and therefore tries to sort the way users expect.

Here's an article with some info: Why, when you sort by name, doesn't it actually sort by name? What order does the DIR command arrange files if no sort order is specified? String sorting is not done by ASCII code any more