Sometime recently when I did a “Save As” for any application or page in a browser, my sort order was reversed (See below). I let it go for a few days but finally it got a bit aggravating since, if you’re like me, you expect to see folders at the top and start to click impulsively. It was a bit frustrating to find the solution, even on Google. Anyway, I finally found an article and it appears to be an issue with the ShellState being corrupted. Oddly enough, the article only says it affects 95 and 98 but I’m on XP SP2 and this still occurred and the fix still worked.

Hope someone finds this useful and has less of a hard time finding the solution here than I did on Google.  Drop in a comment if you find it useful or Digg it.

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