Hate it when people make me do reality checks.
Windows XP Home SP2:
<img src="http://img275.imageshack.us/img275/6662/testsort7qc.jpg">
Windows 2000 SP4:
<img src="http://img275.imageshack.us/img275/3328/testsort20lz.jpg">
I remember it starting with XP. I think from the early days, but I don't have any old installs booted. It can be disabled with a registry change but I'd have to look it up. MS had an article on it under "numeric sort order" or similar. I'm sprinting out the door right now...
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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