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by zweifuss 263 days ago
You mean file9 before file10?

I have some beef with microsoft, that you can only change this at the Computer level, not per user (see registry key below). Also they call it natural sorting for users, but logical sorting internaly. Unify your termini!

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

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To change it per user, set it in the user's hive instead of in the local machine hive (e.g. HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
TIL they are called "hives". Windows Registry is an interesting thing. Even casual users have to interactive with it once or twice w/o fully understand it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/regi...

Raymond Chen explained why a registry file is called a “hive”:

Because one of the original developers of Windows NT hated bees. So the developer who was responsible for the registry snuck in as many bee references as he could. A registry file is called a “hive”, and registry data are stored in “cells”, which is what honeycombs are made of.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030808-00/?p=42...

Thanks for fixing the link!
I mean, if you're running regedit at all you are not a casual user.