How to disable auto refresh after renaming files

[Raheem MA]

Hi,

We have WINDOWS XP OS on my system. We have a problem with auto refresh in windows explorer.

We have a folder that is mapped to network location. We have this problem only with the network mapped

drive.

As soon as we rename any file, the file is moved to the last in the folder. We do not want this

behavior. The file

should be in the same place where it was before renaming.

For example,

we have the following files in the folder in the same order

abc.pdf

fgh.pdf

zyx.pdf

if we rename the file 'fgh.pdf' as 'fghxyz.pdf' then the order will be

abc.pdf

zyx.pdf

fghxyz.pdf

we do not want this type of behavior. The file should be at the same place where it was before renaming.

Any ideas to disable this behavior?

Thank you in advance,

Raheem MA

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

I don't think that you can change this behaviour; this is how Windows Explorer works. If a "new" file is added to a folder, then it is added at the end. A renamed file seems to appear as "new" to Windows Explorer.

There are alternatives to Windows Explorer that may have a different behaviour.

[Raheem MA]

I don't think that you can change this behaviour; this is how Windows Explorer works. If a "new" file is added to a folder, then it is added at the end. A renamed file seems to appear as "new" to Windows Explorer.

There are alternatives to Windows Explorer that may have a different behaviour.

Thank you for your reply,

This is happening to only network mapped drives and not to the normal folders in XP. And this behavior was not there in Windows 2000. We upgraded our systems to Windows XP recently.

Please shed some light in this area.

Thank you,

Raheem MA