>>On my Win XP the DIR command always works as if it were called with parameters /o-d (to order on date in chronologically descending order). I know I set it up somehow in my XP computer (because I am pretty sure that this is not how it works out of the box). But, of course, I don't remember how.
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>>How do you pre-set the DIR command in Windows 7 Command prompt to work the same way?
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>>TIA.
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>You need to set the DIRCMD environment variable to the parameters you want, in this case
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>SET DIRCMD=/o-d
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>Hugo
Thank you very much.
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