Thanks to all for your suggestions and comments. I have mine fixed now and I
am glad some others have been able to fix theirs.
I still think this is childish. I can't see a worthwhile use for these
"group by" sorts. A lot of the time a list in date order is what is wanted
and I think we can look at the date and see where "a long time ago" starts
for us.
It seems to me that Microsoft has reached the limit of what they can think
of to add to the OS and to Office software and are just fiddling round the
edges. I often find the results frustrating, especially when it takes 10 or
15 minutes in Word to find a command that I previously went to almost
automatically.
And I won't start on the near-paranoid security measures and and having to
confirm several times that I want to do something and being told I don't
have permission to do some thing on MY computer of which I am the sole user.
Someone thinks all this is progress!!
Paul
"Ed Cryer" <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in message
news:i8pl5n$f05$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> On 09/10/2010 10:58, Dave-UK wrote:
>>
>> "P" <thomaspz@_takeout_bigpond.com> wrote in message
>> news:zLWro.1376$hz6.1294@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com...
>>> Thanks for your suggestions but I have found it - by chance I believe.
>>>
>>> The folder was being displayed in date order with weird subheadings
>>> such as - today, last week, I forget the exact headings because I
>>> found them so irritating but I am sure one was "a long time ago".
>>> Would you believe that? I mean, is this OS for kindergarten or what?
>>> Anyway I finally got rid of them by selecting "Arrange by Folder" and
>>> there was the list in simple date order with the missing file where it
>>> should have been.
>>>
>>> There are many things about Win 7 that make me wonder what the people
>>> as Microsoft are on - and no, I don't want any.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>
>> I've never seen a listing with ' a long time ago ' as a header.
>> Are you sure you are using Windows Explorer ?
>>
>>
>>
>
> I've seen it many times; and just checked again 2 minutes ago.
> Pick a folder, change default "arange by" (top right) from folder to date
> modified, and look.
> I get "earlier this week", "earlier this year" followed by "a long time
> ago". But there's a date after each one which kind of makes it better.
>
> Ed