The Old New Thing

Why can't the default drag/drop behavior be changed?

June 9, 2005 Jun 9, 2005 06/9/05

Raymond Chen

A common reaction to my explanation of whether dragging a file will result in a move or copy was that there should be a setting that lets you change the algorithm by which Explorer decides whether you want to move or copy. There are a few reasons why this is a bad idea. First, if there were such a setting, then it removes some of the ...