Show sort headings in all views (Win 8, File Explorer)?

In Windows 7 I used the the .dll file Explorer8fixes.dll, https://github.com/ijprest/Explorer7Fixes to return the sort headings in File Explorer for all views (Large Icons, Lists, Details etc).

In Windows 8 I place the .dll in System32, run CMD as adminstrator, type regsvr32 explorer7fixes.dll, and it gives me a message to say it has registered the dll successfully. However there is no change in File Explorer, even after restarting the PC.

I would prefer to get this .dll modification working rather than install a larger customization piece of software which also happens to include this functionality such as ClassicShell, Folder Options X or QTTabBar.

Can anyone help?

Are you talking about the highlighted headers in this screenshot:
They are native both in Windows 7 & 8, no need to use third party tools. Select Group by and how you want to group, it adds headers automatically. Use then Sort by function to sort inside groups.

Kari

http://media.askvg.com/articles/images5/Windows_7_Explorer_Column_Header.png

OK, I misunderstood you. Sorry.

No worries. Didn't mean to sound like an ass with the short answer, I was just in a hurry earlier.


What worries me is that this worked in Windows 7. And I'm half-sure it used to work in Windows 8 for me too. Feels like useability improvement hacks and Windows Updates are fighting a war against each other, never really gaining any real ground on the other.

Sorry, only details will show sort headers.

Yes fellas, by default only details shows the columns. That is why in Windows 7, and I'm half-sure it used to work in Win8 as well, I used the Explorer7fixes.dll to make them available in all views.

My problem is that now for some reason (possibly a Windows Update), it no longer works. The dll can be registered, but no change takes place even after logging-off or restarting the computer.

Has anyone noticed that Explorer7Fixes is made for Windows 7 Explorer?

The files date from 2010, it's seen on the site.

Maybe that's simply not compatible with the newer Explorer on Win8.

lilsting10 said:

In Windows 7 I used the the .dll file Explorer8fixes.dll,

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lilsting10 said:

https://github.com/ijprest/Explorer7Fixes to return the

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You mean 7 not 8 right? Renaming the file manually would not do any good.

Hopachi said:

Has anyone noticed that Explorer7Fixes is made for Windows 7 Explorer?

The files date from 2010, it's seen on the site.

Maybe that's simply not compatible with the newer Explorer on Win8.

lilsting10 said:

In Windows 7 I used the the .dll file Explorer8fixes.dll,

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lilsting10 said:

https://github.com/ijprest/Explorer7Fixes to return the

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You mean 7 not 8 right? Renaming the file manually would not do any good.

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Yeah, I did mean explorer7fixes.dll My bad. Originally I didn't think it would work with Win8's Explorer, because I tried it and it wouldn't work. Then after reading online that some people had it working I somehow got it to work.



A few days ago I accidentally ran CCleaner which 'custom files and folders' ticked and it seems to have wiped it out, and now I cannot get Explorer7fixes.dll to work. Currently I can register the dll, but there is no change reflected in explorer even after logging out or restarting.


I wonder if maybe it's because I'm logging-in as a Microsoft Account and maybe I previously got it to work as a local account before switching over (I honestly can't remember)? But I'm gonna hit-up System Restore and see if I can roll back my settings until 30th April, which is when it was last working correctly.

System Restore worked, hooray!

Still have no idea why it is so finiky to get working, nor how I did get it to work in Windows 8 Explorer before.

Really Windows 8? It wasn't CCleaner, it was me resetting Internet Explorer to default settings to remove the Conduit Search hijacker that flushed-out my column header settings? What the hell!

Back to System Restore I go to get them back, I guess.

So... someone out there with more knowledge than I might be able to explain all this. I'm just bumble-****ing around looking for answers.

The reason why resetting IE's settings to get rid of the Conduit Search hijack I have may lie in the advanced settings checkbox 'enable third party browser extensions'. Folder Options X - one of the pieces of software I mentioned that has the column header fuctionality built-into a larger overall software - states that it needs that checkbox to be ticked.


... although there is no addon anywhere in IE for Explorer7fixes.dll, like is shown for Folder Options X above. I'm glad System Restore worked for me, I just wish I knew why. I hate not knowing things.

What has Internet Explorer to do with File Explorer extensions?
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I think it really was CCleaner wiping too many registry entries before the successful restore took place.
Exclude the needed registry lines from the cleaning operation so it will not happen again.

I don't think it has to do with CCleaner. The first time I restored from system restore, I did not run CCleaner, but I did reset IE's settings. That wiped them out again. One of the little bulletpoints which comes-up during the IE settings reset says something like 'user customizations'; so I'm assuming the two are somehow related, especially given Folder X Options' image on needing IE to have third party browser extensions to be enabled.

Pretty weird...

I thought Explorer7fixes is an extension to Windows (File) Explorer, not Internet Explorer. :shock:

I don't use any 3rd party extensions to File Explorer since those (mostly the untested ones) can be pretty unstable and crash.

YES!

If this happens again, and http://www.eightforums.com/system-security/38177-all-my-system-restore-points-corrupted.html
the way to fix it is to open CCleaner>Tools>Startup and enable Helper/Explorer7Fixes BHO Class.

This will work even though there is no longer any record of the 'addon' in IE after resetting IE to default (say, if I get Conduit/Delta Search hijacker again).

Although I have no idea if it will work if you install CCleaner after having to reset IE's settings and didn't have it already installed.

mdmd said:

Sorry, only details will show sort headers.

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Drove me crazy that I couldn't sort picture thumbs by size or date, etc. Classic Shell fixes this. 'Sort headers in all views' will enable for all, not just default details view.

You possibly need Folder Options X ( Folder Options X )

It has such option.