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Michael Kaplan writes about Social Engineering in Windows Explorer on his blog addressing an issue of Windows Explorer dropping out leading spaces from filenames.

What he fails to realize is that many Windows users are adding those leading spaces intentionally because files and folders with leading spaces are sorted at the top of the list, and the number of spaces also determines their relative order like in this example:

   ghi.doc
  def.doc
 jkl.doc
abc.doc
abc2.doc
def2.doc
...

Soo... Windows shell team basically did what? What they always do of course! — they removed frequently used "feature". Thank you guys for making our lives harder by removing the stuff we do use, and adding the stuff we don't (which usually slows down the computer as a side effect).