Raymond Chen's Old New Thing covered a similar issue, contrasting NTFS vs. Windows Explorer: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050617-10/?p=35293

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing covered a similar issue, contrasting NTFS vs. Windows Explorer: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050617-10/?p=35293 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050617-10/?p=... He referenced Michael Kaplan's MSDN blog about how Windows Explorer sorts, which took me a while to find: http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/09/30/778345.html http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/09/30/77834... And there is a KB article about differences between Windows versions: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/319827/the-sort-order-for-files-and-folders-whose-names-contain-numerals-is-d https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/319827/the-sort-ord... The function is available for use, StrCmpLogicalW: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb759947.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...