>Hi All, VFP7 on my development PC has started behaving strangely, whenever I use any of the Open file dialogs ( in the IDE not code !) the sort order is not alphabetic - I have to change the view menu to details and click on the "Name" column header to get the alpha sort then change it back to list - very irritating - any ideas what is causing this ?

Hi Peter

But isn't that ALWAYS the case with any open file dialogue in Windows? I think the order is most recently/frequently accessed first, then maybe alpha-num. It drives me mad that the view (in my prefernce "details" and sorted on name col) can't be defaulted to one's last view and I have to do this over and over again.