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#100 Disable manual sorting
In Windows 7, "Content" and "List" views do not allow for manual (drag and drop) sorting of files. In other views, a drag and drop will disable whatever method of sorting was selected. In XP, details view would never allow manual sorting. (Note: there is also a bug in W7 that, when you re-enable the previous sort method after this happens, it will not refresh the view. Any other method will correctly refresh.)
The feature request is then, please add an option to enforce a sorting method (in at least details view), as in XP. I suspect it might be hard to remove the positioning bracket, which is fine with me.
For me details view always sorts. Is that not the case for you?
That's right - I'm somehow able to pull things and sort them manually in details view on both of my installations. Here is a video demonstration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTq-JOFmmY
Looks like you have done some modifications (either through registry hacks or QTTabBar). This doesn't look like stock Windows 7 to me.
Maybe if you right-click in the files area you will get a menu for auto-arrange or sort.
Auto/sort are displayed, but they're grayed. I reviewed the only suspicious mods running, Taskbar Tweaker, DesktopListView and a registry key to disable full row selection (as seen in the video - only the name gets highlighted).
It is indeed the disabled full row select hack which causes this, as well as many other weird phenomenon as seen here. http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-full-row-select-explorer-windows-7/
Would a ClassicShell approach be a possible alternative to this hack, then? Again, the XP behavior is desired - I don't want to select a file when I click the whitespace - only on the name. Old habits...
Just as I thought - the full row select hack simply reverts to the Vista-style file list. However it is all-or-nothing deal. You get all Vista features or none at all. As far as I know there is no fix.