Right, I've come across this small annoyance. Dunno if there's an option for it or not, but I haven't been able to find one.
Take a look at this picture:
My Visual C++ projects folder.
See anything wrong with it? Indeed, the folders are slightly out of order. Take the two folders "FF9Viewer" and "FF73D". WinXP apparently sees "FF73" and considers it as greater than "FF9", since 73 indeed is greater than 9. Annoying as hell though, and it's messing up my view of things completely. Anyone know any way to revert to the old sorting algorithm found in ...well, any other OS?