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Perplexer
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Need help with a sorting problem

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I'm using Total Commander 9.0a on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and also on Windows Server 2008 64-bit.

I went through Options on both computers and configured TC completely identically. Still, I noticed that folders/files are not sorted in the same way. The sort method I have set on both computers in TC is "Natural sorting: alphabetical and numbers".

As an example I can take two folders: Star Trek and Star.Wars

On Windows Server 2008 (related to Vista) with Internet Explorer 9 the folders are shown like this:
Star.Wars
Star Trek

On Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 11 the folders are shown like this:
Star Trek
Star.Wars

Like I mentioned, TC settings are identical, so I am guessing it has something to do with Internet Explorer, since help pages say that this particular sorthing method "Needs Internet Explorer >=6.x installed on your system, because a function from IE6 is used for sorting.". Region, language and locale options are also set the same in Control Panel on both computers.

I then tried it on Windows XP Professional 32-bit with Internet Explorer 8 and on that one TC sorts the same way as on Windows 7. So it's quite weird. I would like to get them all to sort the same way while having "Natural sorting: alphabetical and numbers" set as the sort method.

Does anyone have any ideas or tips on what I should try next ?

Thanks.
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Do you have enabled option "Display - Sorting directories - Like files (also by time)" on both machines?
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Post by *Perplexer »

Yes, that option is set on both. Switching it to "Always by name" does not change the sort order though, at least not in my case.

Actually I noticed that the same sorting discrepancy is also present in Windows Explorer. On Windows Server 2008 it shows "Star.Wars" before "Star Trek" and in Windows 7 it shows "Star Trek" before "Star.Wars".
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

"Natural sorting: alphabetical and numbers" uses a special Windows function StrCmpLogicalW. Microsoft writes about this function
Note Behavior of this function, and therefore the results it returns, can change from release to release.
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