And it seems after all these years Microsoft is yet to notice this problem let alone address it. It’d have been better if the re-arranging happened if the user manually refreshes the Window. This is a nice feature actually but the way it’s implemented, it happens as soon as you hit Enter which is kind of a jarring experience. Windows Explorer automatically moves the file from the bottom to the top. Say, the sort method is set to sort by name and you rename a file xyz.txt to abc.html. What it essentially does is it re-arranges the files and folders in the Explorer windows as soon as a change is made. Below, I have mention 3 ways in which you can turn off the auto arrange of files and folders in Windows. Many users have been looking all over for a way to disable auto arrange in Windows 10 Explorer.
Unfortunately, the auto-arrange feature stayed along when Windows 7 came along, and it still is present in Windows 10.
Windows Vista annoyed a lot of people and it paid the price. Until Windows XP, the auto arrange or auto-refresh feature wasn’t there in Windows Explorer but it was introduced in Windows Vista which isn’t surprising.
