Re: Drag & Drop default for XP Pro

Now David, there is no call to offend us idiots.
"A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below
three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or
guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification
system no longer in use and is now considered offensive."

Actually, IDIOT is an acronym for: Interactive Digital Input/ Output
Transmitter

Anyway Patrick, if I were you and I was 'simply fed up' or even
complexly fed up, I would scrub my hard drive and install Linux. That
would cure two problems. You would have a whole new set of problems,
and more importantly you would be complaining on an entirely different
news group. That would be nice. <plonk>

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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I think you are an idiot.

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"Patrick T" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm simply fed up with having to use a dialog to move files between
> folders on
> the same drive. I hate wasting the time and having to remember to
> right drag
> or pressing the Shift key to force a Move. Why would anyone create
> such a
> difference between Pro and Home to force people to be unproductive?
> It's
> pretty darned lame and poor design to me.
>
> So what I am hearing is that I'm stuck with lousy design and there
> is no
> registry fix or patch to change it. I guess I must use my XP Home
> machine for
> production and the XP Pro machine for a file server.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> PatrickT
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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> David Candy wrote:
>
>> Betcha neither of your computers work as you describe. Copy between
>> drives and move within a drive are the rules.
>
>
> Because I always have trouble remembering which gives Move and which
> gives
> Copy, I always prefer to right-drag instead of left-dragging. That
> way, when
> you release the item, you get prompted to choose Move or Copy (as
> well as
> Create Shortcut).
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>
>>> My installation of XP Pro has file drag & drop default action as
>>> Copy. How can I change this to Move which is default for my XP
>>> Home
>>> installation on another computer?
>>>
>>> PatrickT
>
>
>


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