If numbers appear in a filename you should try and use the format [01. . .]
or [001. . .] depending on how many items you want to be sorted - it might
also help the brain to keep things organized. I cannot make promises as for
this specific issue, but computer related jobs in general often will be
requiring specificity at some point.
Tony. . .
"Alan M. Goldfarb" <AlanMGoldfarb[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:522087B5-4A2C-46ED-A34C-59B2DB275D9A[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > I'd like to find out if Windows XP supports the pictures in the "My
> Pictures
> Slideshow" screen saver option, being shown in correct alpha-numeric order
> according to pic file name, each time.
>
> For the sake of continuity I'll say that the pictures in my "My Pictures"
> folder are named Pic1, Pic 2, Pic3, etc. all the way up to Pic10 (this is
> not
> necessarily saying I have ten pictures in the folder, but you get the
> idea).
>
> When my screensaver activates the pictures are not always shown in
> alpha-numeric order. It might show Pic4 first, then Pic6, then Pic1, then
> Pic8.... another time it will show Pic9 first, then Pic10, then Pic2, then
> Pic7, then Pic4. In other words they are shown in random order each time.
>
> In Windows VISTA the pictures are always shown in correct alpha-numeric
> order, (that is, Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, etc.) unless I check a checkbox that
> says
> "Randomize." But there are no such controls in the XP version.
>
> Does this mean that only Windows Vista supports the pictures being shown
> in
> alpha-numeric order? Or is there a way to do it on XP as well that I
> haven't
> found or figured out?
>
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