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Ever since upgrading to Windows 7, we have had a problem with people inadvertently moving folders by dragging and dropping when meaning to double click. Is there a way to turn on a confirmation prompt ("are you sure you want to...") when dragging and dropping files/folders? It seems that previous versions of Windows had this prompt, but it has since been removed. This is happening in our office on at least a weekly basis, sometimes daily, and we have to spend time searching for the moved folder. If MS is unable to help, is there software that we can purchase to accomplish this?
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Windows 7 made no changes: there has never been a confirmation prompt like you describe.
One workaround is to increase the distance you must move the pointer before it triggers a drag. Under the following registry key, you'll see DragHeight and DragWidth, which define the number of pixels the mouse must move before the drag is initiated:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT\USER\Control Panel\Desktop
That fix worked with windows 2000 back when internet explorer policy applied to windows explorer as well. In their infinite wisdom Microsoft stopped that from happening in xp but never implemented any new policy for explorer to duplicate the setting. We have been waiting 11 years now for Microsoft to get their act together and do something but as we saw by the initial reply to this thread they are in denial that it ever existed in the first place.
Doesn't work either. I made the edits and rebooted and there's no difference when left-click and dragging.
In Windows 7 under Mouse settings I checked the box "Turn on ClickLock." This causes a box to pop up "Move to folder name" and the user will have to click a folder to move it or not. I will change this on several computers to see if this helps or hinders users.
This makes things worse. The tiny box that pops up comes when you drag a folder regardless of the ClickLock settings.
