Are you talking about the order that they are sorted in the feature dropdown list?

A long time ago that sort was based on the name of the feature definition file, but that was changed quite a long time ago and now the sort is controlled by the sortOrder attribute inside the feature definition xml

If you make a change in the feature definition file then you need to visit the /Setup/Default.aspx page so it will apply the changed configuration. For your custom feature you would also need to build your feature so that the post build event copies your updated feature definition file up to the Web project.

Hope that helps,

Joe

keep in mind it just sorts by this value but more than one feature could have the same sort value and there could be large gaps in the values so changing it may have no effect if it still has a lower sort than other features it will still be at the top of the feature dropdown list.

The sort order in which features are setup on the setup page is not of importance for visitors nor editors of your site. The order in which those run is just the sort order of the feature folders at /Setup/applications/[featurefolder]

Though it will setup /Setup/applications/mojoportal-core before it runs setup for other features, so core features like Html, Site Statistics, Newsletter Sign Up, etc run first then it installs the external features in alphabetic file system order of the application folder names.

Hope that helps,

Joe