All,

It turns out it's an Explorer problem, not just VFP. I got refered to a KB article, by one of the Win MVPs, that'll fix you up right as rain.

Q233526

>If you go to "Detail" view in the Open dialog, and click on the "Name" column header, does it persist to the next instance?
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>>This problem is driving me nuts. Two boxes at my desk, both Win95 (don't laugh) IE5.01 installed months ago. On one of the two, in VFP6SP3 using the File Open dialog either in VFP or my app the files are being listed in "date" order instead of "name" order. This just started a few days ago, and I sure as heck don't remember doing anything that would have caused this.
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>>I've tried resetting all Explorer folders but that didn't help.