Modules sorted by publish status

From Joomla! Documentation

Just a simple thing, in order to how to see all modules list sorted by active status (published). It may useful if you're using many modules and some of them have been deactivated.

Open the /administrator/components/com_modules/admin.modules.php file and change this line (around line 144)

. "\n ORDER BY position ASC, ordering ASC"

to

. "\n ORDER BY published DESC, ordering ASC"