I have a question about Set 
Defaults in Explorer:


Windows will display files as sorted by name, filetype or date, in ascending or descending 
order.  That is the sum total of sorting options.  Why is there no option to order 
them unsorted?  This means the order in which they were written to the disk.

This may seem trivial, but there have been many occasions when it was important for 
the files to be presented in this fashion, for example when you want to burn them 
to an optical disk and it's important to control the order they are played.

I have tried everything I can think of to tell Windows not to do any sorting at all, 
but to no avail.  When I absolutely must have it this way, I have to resort to the 
command prompt and do things the "DOS" way, which gives me exactly what I want.

This seems like such a simple thing, is there something I've overlooked?

Things look pretty bleak for the future; I was playing with Vista yesterday and couldn't 
even change the resolution and color depth of the display.  Computing for monkeys.

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There are 2 dates you can sort by. Date the file was created and date it was modified. If you sort on the create date, that is the order in which it was written.

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To Rich Kurtz-

Thank you for the reply, but that's not a solution.  While it's better than 'sort 
by modified', it still does not display the files in the order they were written 
to the disk.  This is what I mean by 'unsorted'.  

To see what I mean, do a directory listing in a 'DOS' window.  You will see the files 
displayed as they were written.  There is no sorting of any kind.  I want Windows 
to display them in the same way.  Seems it can't be done.

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Doesn't work that way on my computer. Here is a dir of the root of C:, it's sorted alphabetically by name.

C:\>dir
  Volume in drive C is HP_C
 Volume Serial Number is 6021-F905

 Directory of C:\

10/16/2007  07:48 PM                 0 aaa.txt
06/11/2007  03:50 PM                 0 AdobeDebug.txt
06/10/2007  02:46 PM                 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
06/10/2007  02:40 PM               302 boot.ini.comodofirewall
06/10/2007  02:46 PM                 0 CONFIG.SYS
08/29/2007  07:36 PM              Documents and Settings
08/17/2007  08:07 PM              I386
06/18/2007  07:18 PM              minint
08/06/2007  02:57 PM             2,800 NetDiag.log
07/28/2007  08:13 PM             8,192 peboot.bin
08/04/2004  08:00 AM           260,272 peldr
10/02/2007  04:32 PM              Program Files
09/26/2007  08:28 PM              rexxprogs
10/16/2007  07:47 PM              WINDOWS
07/24/2007  10:06 PM              X2
               8 File(s)        271,566 bytes
               7 Dir(s)  13,478,825,984 bytes free

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