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Arrange icons by modified in a music folder

Posted on May 15, 2008 by admin

Windows XP often does some really annoying things, such as automatically customising a folder, changing it’s kind into “music”, when it detects that the folder contains music files.

Although for some people this might be useful, for me it’s not. Often I’ll want to sort the files in a folder by different fields, NOT the ones that music folders have.

Easy, I thought, it’s just a case of changing the folder customisation kind back to “Document”. Wrong.

Here you can see the default “Arrange Icons By” menu, that comes with a “music” folder…

But we don’t want this, we want our standard fields back!

In Explorer, go to View -> “Choose Details”.

A dialogue will appear…

From here we can choose date modified, and various other “details” or “fields” that we’d like to “arrange icons by”.

Enjoy!

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19 Responses to Arrange icons by modified in a music folder

1. Al. H. says:

   May 31, 2008 at 2:28 pm

   Thanks, that actually helped me.
   I used to always arrange my icons by date and recently I wasn’t able to.
2. Kardos says:

   June 8, 2008 at 3:13 am

   Sure, but is there a way to make windows stop “classifying” my folders as “music” ? Manually changing the sort-by fields back every time is tedious. Cheers
3. john says:

   June 25, 2008 at 5:57 pm

   thanks man my girlfriend realy had trouble finding her songs this helped me alot tally ho my friend!!
4. Andy says:

   June 27, 2008 at 1:43 am

   That’s just the tip of the iceberg of the worst thing that plagued all versions of Windows since 98 (including Vista): it just guesses how I would like to view at a folder (thumbs, list, detail…) instead of just listening to my choices and stick to them.
5. Kirsty says:

   July 23, 2008 at 4:48 pm

   thanks! really helped
6. mert says:

   July 27, 2008 at 5:50 pm

   thanks man.. Ive been meaning to solve this issue for years!
7. D says:

   September 24, 2008 at 11:57 am

   thanks alot man .. great help.
8. shahzad says:

   September 30, 2008 at 11:52 pm

   awesome, thanks…
9. Nitya says:

   October 25, 2008 at 1:18 am

   Thank you so much. I got so annoyed when my C drive automatically changed itself to a music folder, everything I saved would stay where it was, it would go to alphabetical order. Really helped, thanks very much.
10. Saintsfan says:

    November 17, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    thanks 100 times…..i could never figure this out. Great Help!!!
11. Dung Tran says:

    December 12, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Thanks guy, it’s a great help!
    Windows explorer made me crazy enough with it up 2 now!
12. thijs says:

    January 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    This also helps if a music folder is not set as a music folder… tnx!
13. dischord33 says:

    January 15, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    Thanks alot, I was so annoyed that my files wouldn’t stay in the order I’d placed them in.
14. ash says:

    August 28, 2009 at 9:24 am

    thanks. M soft can b a mf’in bitch. really thoughtful of u.
15. Hui-Yun says:

    October 29, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    ahhhhh!!!!!!!!!
    Thanks man!!!!
    I just formatted my pc and this option did not appear
    i was totally freak out until i saw this
    hahaha
16. Andrew says:

    February 26, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    finally!!!!!!
    THIS WAS FKING ANNOYING!!!! i would change that since 5years!!!
17. T says:

    June 25, 2010 at 3:29 am

    THANK YOU
18. Todd says:

    July 14, 2010 at 8:11 am

    Thanks!!!! F*** Windows and this *******
19. bro says:

    November 8, 2010 at 8:16 am

    thanks, i was ripping my hair out over this one