Removing windows exploer sort bar?

[ghaleon686]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to remove or disable the functionality of the explorer search bar? Personally I don't like auto sorting and have disabled it by other means but sometimes I accidentally click the name button and sadly there's no undo button that I can find. I'd really like to find a way to remove it if possible.

[HappyAndyK]

No easy way - you would have to hack some system files for that.

[ghaleon686]

Any idea on how to go about that? or maybe just disabling it's functionality.

[HappyAndyK]

^ Nope - no idea about that!

[spacerram]

Seems like it would just be easier to swap it out for a third party program.

There's probably a way to disable it in registry, but the side-effects might be messy.