Hi, I really like windows 2000sp4, but I need to tweak a few things. Need help. Most annoying problem- explorer keeps auto-arranging the icons in C: drive. Look at this picture I found on google: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v... Now, that doesn't even look like Win2k, but anyway. As you see the folders are lined up nice and neat. I don't want windows to do this for me. My C: drive has TONS of files and folders, and I organize them a certain way and windows always "tidies them up" and I can't figure out how to turn that off. 2nd problem. Somewhat related to the problem above. Whenever I save a file to C: drive, often instead of putting the file down below the others, windows puts it off to the right so alot of times I don't see the file until I move the horizontal slider. I would rather make windows always put the file below, then I have to use the vertical slider but that's ok. How do I do this? 3rd problem- Is there a program to manipulate(turn off) how programs "steal focus". I mean, it's a totally useless feature, and I'd like to turn that off altogether if possible. Stealing focus sucks. thanks guys

Is auto arrange checked under view, arrange icons by..? http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windo... See if the prevents stealing focus. It won't work in Vista

--Is auto arrange checked under view, arrange icons by..? sorry, i tried that before making the thread. there is no check next to auto arrange. under xp, there is supposedly some config file i can change to read only, and this will hack it so it stays put. but i don't know what file. thanks for the registry hack, that seems to work.

Any ideas people? The main problem is still not fixed.