For the past month now I have been plagued by a minor issue that has been grating at me to the point where it has become really irritating.

Every time I use a file open dialogue box (attaching a file, opening a file) on my Windows XP laptop, the files and folders are ordered by the last modified date. This is intensely annoying if it happens
every single time you go to open a file or folder! My only solution in folders with large numbers of files has been to right-click and re-order by name, but this ordering is lost the next time, and it defaults back to last modified.

I finally found the solution in a Logical Tips article written by Susan Daffron, who also had to endure lots of aggravation before finding the cure!

What did we do wrong? Apparently we were holding down the control key when closing a Windows Explorer window….. Serves us right so.