Important note: In order to avoid confusion, the sort extensions are disabled by default. You can enable them in the "&xwp; Setup" object.

The new &xwp; sort features are:

• Finally, there are global sort settings, which previously did not exist in the WPS. While it was possible to set a number of folder settings globally, until now sorting could only be influenced for each individual folder, which was quite annoying. &xwp; introduces a "Sort" page to the "Workplace Shell" object for global sort settings, which can be overridden individually for each folder.
  
• &xwp; also gets rid of some of the strange sort settings which nobody used anyway, such as the "sort class". (This setting did not make much sense, because WPFolder is the only class which introduces meaningful sort criteria anyway.)
  
• Most importantly, &xwp; gives you lots of new sort options for folders -- both for each individual folder and globally through the "Sort" page in the "Workplace Shell" object.

  For one, new sort criteria such as "object class" and "file name extension" have been introduced.

  Secondly, there is now a new "super-criterion" for always sorting folders first, in addition to the folder's default sort criterion. For example, you can sort by size and still have all folders sorted to the top.

  For all this, the "Sort" submenu in each folder context menu has been reworked too:

  
  As you can see, &xwp; adds menu items for "Always maintain sort order" and "Sort folders first" for quick access.

  In addition, you can quickly change the default sort criterion for a certain folder by holding down the "Shift" key while selecting a sort criterion in the "Sort" menu.