How to rearrange icons within directories in Windows 7?

I just installed Windows 7 on my Laptop, upgrading from Windows Vista. I find that the ability to rearrange items within your folders manually is missing. What I want to know is how to reactivate this basic feature that has been around in all previous Windows versions.

 

Not sure what you mean by rearranging them manually. There is a option to arrange the contents of the folder.

At the top right inside the folder, it should say "Arrange by:"

From there you can select a wide variety of options:

Folder
Author
Date Modified
Tag
Type
Name

 

Have you tried double-clicking the heading of the column. That should, at least, sort them alphabetically.

 

I believe andros wants to put them in his/her own order, not sorted by any attribute of the file.

Gary

 

As far as I know, it can't be done. I miss that feature myself as I like to put things in the order that I want them.

 

Yea I went through many treads and yes the feature has been removed from Windows 7 . So far the only fix I found to arrange things the way I want to is to rename a file set like this:

Cod4.exe(shortcuts)
Fallout3.exe
gta4.exe
re5.exe

to something like this in alphabetical order:

1-re5.exe
2-fallout3.exe
3-cod4.exe
4-gta4.exe
and so on...


Adding numbers at the beginning is the simplest way to sort them for now but I would petition to bring back the manual arranging at least as an activatable option.

 

Yep, I started numbering them too. But it's a pain.