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re: Drag and Drop behaviour is different between different partions and within the same partion. Friday, June 26, 2009 at 3:08 pm Posted by Charlie Hadden (1338 messages posted) The nuance you are speaking of goes WAY back. An efficient way to rectify this issue is not to do a Drag-n-Drop at all. Try to get used to a Copy and Paste. It will be tempting to use a Cut and Paste, but you can loose your file if not completed correctly. It is not that big of a problem doing the copy first and going back later to delete the original file once you have confirmed the operation has completed properly. Most Office people I have worked with prefer this as the shortcut keys also work well in many other places and applications like word processing. I don't know a single word of Svenska and very little German so I am sure you are a much better linguist than I. Broken English does not bother me. I have a degree in IT. My grandmother had the English degree and she never learned computing. Our job here is to help you fix your computing issues! Besides, most of the people here only understand American. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag and Drop behaviour is different between different partions and within the same partion. Friday, June 26, 2009 at 3:11 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Indeed the same as XP. Right or wrong, that's how MS designed Windows (XP and Vista) default behaviour. As MS also provided a key combination, as you say, to give the specific behaviour you want, I'd guess that's all you're going to get. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag and Drop behaviour is different between different partions and within the same partion. Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:49 pm Posted by Flyfisherman (2 messages posted) Hi Charlie and thanks for the answer, Well, Yes I understand this and I also currently use this technique when/while? (English grammar is not so easy sometimes, but I'll try it the US style) I'm doing this type of copying or moving things. Still I can't understand why MS bother them self with extra strange codes to have their system to act like this? I would presume that costs a little extra 500 or so lines of program code...? Or was it because of just that, that the design from the beginning was so poor, that they saved 500 or so lines of codes..? Naturally it's not easy to make everything straight, when you have to take in consideration of maybe > 1000 of programmers, to make it to work at the end. That's the reason for the patches..Right? For me It's just an annoying thing. But No problem, I know how to deal with it. I was just hoping for a solution, You know, change a reg key or something... I really don't like 3:rd party s/w to much, since they tend to suck up system resources to much and at the end are very often incompatible with the system they are written for. Best Regards, Flyfisherman On Friday, June 26, 2009 at 3:08 pm, Charlie Hadden wrote: >The nuance you are speaking of goes WAY back. > >An efficient way to rectify this issue is not to do a Drag-n-Drop at all. Try to >get used to a Copy and Paste. It will be tempting to use a Cut and Paste, but you >can loose your file if not completed correctly. It is not that big of a problem doing >the copy first and going back later to delete the original file once you have confirmed >the operation has completed properly. > >Most Office people I have worked with prefer this as the shortcut keys also work >well in many other places and applications like word processing. > >I don't know a single word of Svenska and very little German so I am sure you are >a much better linguist than I. Broken English does not bother me. I have a degree >in IT. My grandmother had the English degree and she never learned computing. Our >job here is to help you fix your computing issues! Besides, most of the people here >only understand American. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag and Drop behaviour is different between different partions and within the same partion. Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 7:13 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (1338 messages posted) This is indeed one of those things that gave birth to the Annoyances site here! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag and Drop behaviour is different between different partions and within the same partion. Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 9:09 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) Besides having been that way at least since Windows 3.0, it really makes a lot of sense if you give it sufficient thought. On Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:49 pm, Flyfisherman wrote: >Hi Charlie and thanks for the answer, >Well, Yes I understand this and I also currently use this technique when/while? (English >grammar is not so easy sometimes, but I'll try it the US style) I'm doing this type >of copying or moving things. > >Still I can't understand why MS bother them self with extra strange codes to have >their system to act like this? >I would presume that costs a little extra 500 or so lines of program code...? >Or was it because of just that, that the design from the beginning was so poor, that >they saved 500 or so lines of codes..? >Naturally it's not easy to make everything straight, when you have to take in consideration >of maybe > 1000 of programmers, to make it to work at the end. >That's the reason for the patches..Right? > >For me It's just an annoying thing. But No problem, I know how to deal with it. >I was just hoping for a solution, You know, change a reg key or something... >I really don't like 3:rd party s/w to much, since they tend to suck up system resources >to much and at the end are very often incompatible with the system they are written >for. >Best Regards, Flyfisherman > > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum