>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 ?

Check Re: Control FileOpen dialog size, columns, view mode, etc? Thread #1017674 Message #1017957

Basically, these are registry settings and can be controlled. I saw a thread recently on a Russian web-site how to control these settings programmatically. In your case you may want to do it once.

I almost found the right thread, give me few more minutes.