Author Topic: Prevent accidental Click and Drag of folders in Win Explorer (Read 2025 times)

Pride · « **on:** October 24, 2005, 12:12:39 PM »

Hey guys... been researching all morning, figured I would turn to you guys for some help

I have some users on our network that like to left click and drag (accidentally) folders inside of other folders.

Its easy to do as all you need to do is click on a folder that you are trying to go into, and if you dont click correctly, and drag up... it will move that folder to the folder above/below it.

I need to find a way to force a prompt to show when moving a folder to confirm the user wants to do so.

I have seen a ton of stuff on the net, but nothing that really works...

Can you guys help me out at all?

sully! · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2005, 05:37:01 PM »

I can't give you a dialog box, but you can make it harder to accidentally drag the folders.

The TweakUI for Windows XP Powertoy has a setting that lets you adjust how many pixels you have to move the mouse before something will drag. The default is 4 pixels, so bumping this up to the max value of 32 should prevent a lot of the accidental folder nesting.

This setting can be found in the Mouse section of TweakUI.

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Pride · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2005, 07:09:35 PM »

Thats pretty good... but is there an easy way to roll that setting out to 50 clients?

sully! · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2005, 11:21:13 PM »

Well, behind the scenes it's just a registry setting. If you could find out which registry value it's editing, you could place it in a logon script or Group Policy Object to set the value whenever the user logs on (since it is a per user setting).

Let me see if I can find out what's going on.....

sully! · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2005, 12:03:14 AM »

http://searchwinsystems.techtarget.com/searchWinSystems/downloads/c06617880.pdf

Pages 36 and 37....the rest of it might be helpful too, but I didn't look into it that deeply.

Pride · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2005, 08:03:20 AM »

Thank to Shado:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"DragHeight"="32"
"DragWidth"="32"

sully! · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2005, 04:58:04 PM »

Yeah, I found that in the registry too, but the setting didn't seem to take when I changed the registry settings manually. Maybe I had to logoff and back on for them to take effect, but I was experimenting and didn't feel like doing that over and over and over and over and over and over....

Pride · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2005, 08:25:24 PM »

you have to restart your PC or restart Explorer.exe