One of the many small frustrations I find in Windows is Windows Explorer's default sort order. In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft decided way back in the XP era that it made sense to sort in what they called "logical order", rather than ascii. For example:

PO Box 4250
PO Box 751
PO Box 95

is how I would expect to see something sorted, but Explorer sorts it just the opposite, based not on the ascii ascension of 4, then 7, then 9, but on the logical values of 95, 751, and 4250. I guess there is some rationale behind this, but I am old school and prefer my sorts to be plain ascii. Also, the Microsoft way puts all special characters (you know, the `~!@#$%^&*()-_=+\| thingies you see above your numeric keys) ahead of all alpha character in the sort order, and doesn't seem to discriminate between upper and lower case letters.

Back in the XP days there was a registry edit you could perform in the

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

key, but that key does not appear in Windows Vista.

Is there a way to force true ascii sorting as an Explorer default in Windows Vista?

tanstaafl.