Re: Drag & Drop default for XP Pro

I want to thank all those who have no concept of "help" to add totally
insignificant and useless comment that does not remotely answer the issue.
Without people like you the world would never improve.

I will try to make the complaint perfectly clear for anyone to follow.

Computer 1 has XP Home with NTFS and files are to be moved between folders on
the same drive. Left drag and drop moves those files.

Computer 2 has XP Pro with NTFS and files are to be moved between folders on
the same drive. Left drag and drop copies those files. I am the Administrator
on this machine.

I want both computers to use the same behavior on files with left drag and
drop without reinstalling Windows or changing operating systems that won't run
my existing applications.

Microsoft Knowledge Base does not have anything that covers this issue. I
thought that someone here might have an informed response to explain a fix or
exact reason why it can't be changed.

PatrickT

"s31064" wrote in message
news:980EA024-60E5-4678-AB55-520482C0F5C7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There is one instance in which they might behave differently. If the
filesystem is NTFS and you only have Read permissions on the source
directory, you may wind up copying between folders on the same drive because
you can't delete from the source.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> Patrick T wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
> The difference has nothing to do with Pro and Home. The two behave
> identically in this regard. Read David's response below, or do it the way I
> do.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>
> > 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
> > news:%23yZ69oaBGHA.516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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).
> >
> >
> >>> 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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