Disable drag-and-drop in Win Explorer 1

[nQziteev]

I need to disable drag-and-drop in Windows Explorer and in a SAVE or SAVE-AS dialog box. I hame some people that keep moving files accidentally when double clicking on files while the mouse is moving. I want to disable drag-and-drop completely so that they have to use CUT and PASTE to move files.

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Peter

 

[Blade00]

this may help u !!!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gp/84.asp

mohamed hassan
mcsa

 

[netwalker1]

You may make the folders you want them protected from change as Read and Excute only ,, and don't make them have the ability to be changed !
Eng.Mohamed Farid
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[jpm121]

Neither of those ideas is any good. The KB article Blade mentioned only applies to the Task Scheduler, and managing folder rights would be a disaster area.

Here's a reg hack you can use -- beware, you lose basically ALL drag-n-drop functionality everywhere in windows.

Regedit to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop and change DragHeight and DragWidth to 5000 or so.

Reboot and you can't drag/drop anything anywhere.

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This is compliments of some usenet post I found referring to Win98, but I tested and it works in 2K and XP. Search if you want the original rationale.

 

[jpm121]

hehe... Okay, one other small (un-intended) by product of this is you lose the ability to drag and highligh text (like for copy and paste operations.)

So much for that idea -- tho I guess you could train your users to use Shift-ArrowKey instead!!

 

[netwalker1]

It's a very nice trick ,, I think You are a very very evil administartor Mohamed Farid
Know Me No Pain , No Me Know Pain !!!