Re: Moving folders in Windows Explorer

If you do not want the delete confirmation dialog displayed...

Right click Recycle Bin | Properties | Global tab |
UNCheck: Display delete confirmation dialog

Display delete confirmation dialog
[[Specifies whether a confirmation message is displayed when you delete
files to prevent you from deleting files in error. If the Do not move files
to the Recycle Bin check box is selected, you cannot change this setting. ]]

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:urplCf6QGHA.4740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Rob Giordano (Crash) <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
I am sure I wouldn't want it...drives me crazy to have to confirm
everything...even delete - yah, I'm sure I pushed the dang delete button
didn't I?


"Spencer1230" <Spencer1230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:52738ADE-6E8D-4B29-93C6-EAF7E232FDC8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Why haven't I heard of people complaining about how Windows Explorer
moves files and directories without asking "Are you sure?"

This happens when you are moving your mouse in Explorer, and by mistake,
touch the left mouse button and instantly you have moved a whole
directory structure to somewhere else on your drive. This happens so
fast that you sometimes don't even realize that you have moved something.

I am the Information Services Manager for an Architecture firm with 100
employees. I can't believe that we are the only ones experiencing this
problem. The users move directories (by mistake) everyday. Some of
these directories contain 1GB of data, and is moved in a split second,
so the user doesn't know what they have done. I have asked all the
users to only use the right mouse key to move and copy, but the problem
still persists.

I recognize that this is a "user error" but a slight change in Windows
would make it better for everyone. If Microsoft would have Explorer
just ask "Are you sure you want to MOVE X to Y?" then the problem would
go away. I have had no luck asking Microsoft for help and I have not
found a third party add-on that fixes this BUG. I don't want to replace
Explorer because the users are used to Explorer and they don't what to
learn a new program. Please note that this also happens in the open file
dialog box in most programs.

I would also love to know why Microsoft made this change in the first
place! The old File Manager from Windows 3.1 even asked "Are you sure
you want to MOVE X to Y?"

Any ideas?

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