Cheating windows explorer into custom sorting.

generate invisible prefixes. copy. rename. done.

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Cheating windows explorer into custom sorting. generate invisible prefixes. copy. rename. done.

how many items?

generate

#01 U+200B × 3 copy

#02 U+200B × 2 copy

#03 U+200B × 1 copy

what is this?

Windows Explorer has no manual name sorting. U+200B is invisible but can affect the order.

#01 goes on the item you want first.

Tested on Windows 10/11, OneDrive and SharePoint.

remove invisible characters?

paste or type something

removes U+200B.