Re: Why don't people listen?

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Do 'all' users need the ability to copy/move folders?

<BD> wrote in message news:enrHF$IlGHA.3924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I tell my clUsers over and over again...."RIGHT-Click and
Drag"....RIGHT-Click!!

How hard is it to use the right mouse button when you're looking around
inside
the Windows Explorer?

Today, we had another case of "Find Waldo". One person grabs the mouse and
clicks, not paying attention to the fact that they've just moved one
folder into
another. Another person goes looking for that folder only to find that
it's been
moved into a folder 3 folders away from it.

Short of yanking the left button out of the mouse itself, I still can't
find
anyway to prevent this. I thought maybe training, or "reminding" them,
would
get it into their thick heads, but they still continue to screw stuff up.
The
problem is that we NEED to be able to Copy and/or Move folders....but not
accidentally. Hence the reason I tell them to Right-Click and drag
everything.
Right-Clicking produces the nice little pop-up menu that asks what you
want to
do...and you have the option of canceling before you screw anything up.

It would be 1000X better if that pop-up menu was on the Left-Click...or if
we
could just disable the Left button within Windows Explorer and force users
to
use the right button. Maybe with a simple Group Policy, or even a Registry
Key.

Has anyone found any other workarounds that help in preventing the
accidental
Drag & Drop of Folders?

--
BD
MCNGP #51
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