Windows 10 download folder groups

Fixing this and being able to delete the Xbox app are the relief after 3 hours and 40 minutes waiting for this to download and install.

I came across a similar problem in the screenshots folder. The download folder view appears to behave as it should. The display is grouped by time and I cannot find a way to change. Any ideas? Thank you very much for these tips. When I try the grouping it mixes everything up. Have you find a solution for this? Same problem. Wasted an hour trying to fix it and failed. I do not understand why Microsoft does stuff like this.

Can it be that hard to give us control over how we want to work with files? This was only happening with download folder, not the folders within my download folder. It was driving me crazy. This only started today and I wanted to jump off a bridge. Was it something I unintentionally did???? Thank you again. My brain aches from trying to figure this out. Just thought it was dumb when I see it.

It applies to all files regardless if they were downloaded before or after the update. Open the Downloads folder and right-click anywhere. That will remove the time-based grouping from the Downloads folder. The folder layout will go back to looking like it did before you updated to It has been a part of Windows for ages.

When the files are grouped by date, even though the files are sorted by types, they are still grouped by dates. The easiest way to fix the issue is to ungroup the files by deselecting the Date Modified option. First, open the File Explorer and go the Downloads folder.

You can click on the Downloads option under Quick Access. That is it. As soon as you select None, the files will be ungrouped date wise and default to whatever view the Downloads folder is set to.

So far I have not had to redo the ungroup, and I'm less pissed off, at least for now. Just sayin'. Seen the date of the recent of reply's in this thread, i am not the only one who got seriously annoyed after recent windows 10 update. Microsoft decided to turn it on and every reboot its back again.

Tried registry fix, no dice. Every single time i open downloads i need to turn that group by OFF. I really don't get the clue of the function at all! It makes is very hard to find anything. Especially when you search by NAME! You did it! Well, at least I'm pleased to see I'm not the only one so utterly fed up trying to be polite here!

For anyone from the MS UI team Things are usable if and when people know how to use them. They are NOT usable when they are unfamiliar and people don't know how to use them. Generally, 'screwing with the UI' leaves people unfamiliar and unsure how to do things. Worse, it results in them being unfamiliar and unsure in how to complete a task they previously could complete with ease.

Just to ensure you understand that point So, for your next UI team get together, build one large slide and present it to everyone in the room, explaining that screwing with the UI and leaving users that could previously complete tasks with ease uncertain and unable to complete tasks, is a dismal UX and a complete and utter fail for the UI team.

You take your car to the garage for a service. You come to collect it and the garage have decided to 'improve' your car and have changed all the switches and layout of the dashboard. What you used to push, you now have to pull, but if you pull and twist it does some new unexpected function. Bascially, everything has been 'streamlined' Indeed, maybe your bought it because you particularly liked the old layout, and would certainly have grown used to it.

Just stop doing it! Most of these 'improvements' make things worse Is any of this sinking in and does anyone from MS UI ever look at this stuff, or are they all so full of their own greatness they think there's no need to actually consider what the poor suckers that actually have to live with their decisions think of their efforts?

I turned the forsaken function off the last 50 times it was enabled why do they think changing the setting I deliberately set to off back to on is a good idea? To use your anaology its like getting your car bit by bit restored to where you had it then next service they do it again and again and again because "This is better".

No, no it is not better this over here no windows shell function tab, no tap to click, no finger geastures, no group by random garbage, no whatever dumb idea they'll come up with next because that one person likes it. Please understand not only do you have the issues outlined in this thread where randomly changing existing features just angers and makes things difficult for your users.

However if said user takes the time and effort to turn off all your fancy features and set things up differently its probably not because they don't know what they're doing so you need to disable the easy way to make those changes i need to reinstall old touchpad drivers every update so I can actually turn off the godforsaken tap to click.