If you have used the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, you are no doubt aware that it is a beautiful thing which has taken the best of Windows XP, dropped the worst of Windows Vista, and kept the change. However, there is one small problem that the designers neglected to address, which was one of the best features (and admittedly, one we all took for granted) of the older versions of Windows: you cannot manually move files around within a folder, thus creating a custom play list of your audio and video files. This has actually been a significant issue for people who really enjoyed doing this, and it is not something that you will have to give up just to enjoy the other great benefits of using Windows 7 on your computer.
First off, you are going to have to edit your registry. The bad news is this can possibly mess with some of the settings on other parts of your operating system, and it might theoretically interfere with the way you have some other programs set up on your system. Also, you are going to have to change the interface options (under the View tab) in every folder you want to be able to move your icons around in. You will also need to select “icons” (either small, medium or large) before you can successfully disengage the “snap to grid” default. Fortunately, those are relatively minor fixes on all counts.
Any link that we point to here may be obsolete the day you read it, so you will have to search on your own for a registry editing download or tutorial, in order to fix the auto arrangement requirement that Windows 7 enforces by default. There are several different sites where you can either find the exact code in the registry that you can edit by hand or where you can find an executable which will do this “dog work” for you.