Is it possible to use Microsoft's sort order.

[redwdc]

I'm figured this must have been covered before. So, I searched "sort AND order AND microsoft" with no luck.

Is there any way to sort like Microsoft does, i.e. smaller numbers before larger ones. Like this:

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Instead of the way TC does it:

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9 out of 10 time I prefer TC's way of sorting. However, I download files (sometimes large numbers of them) that other programs access in Microsoft's sort sort order. This can be a pain when flipping back and forth with TC.

[umbra]

Hi,
it's not called "Microsoft's sort order" but "Natural sort order". And you can find it in Configuration->Options...->Display->Sort method.
Press F1 in that dialog to see descriptions of the available options.

umbra

[MVV]

BTW there is a way to disable this dumb natural sorting in Explorer:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoStrCmpLogical"=dword:00000001

[redwdc]

Thank you both, umbra and MVV.