Prevent draggin/moving folders

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

| "dave" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Message news:607501c48183$ffc81ca0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
| i was wondering does anyone know how to prevent users from
| dragging folders into different folders?

For folders that don't need to be modified, setting the read-only
attribute is an easy solution. Else, maybe this solution posted
by "Mike" in the microsoft.public.win2000.registry group would
work for you.

----- Begin Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <http://www.microsoft.com/communities/privacy.mspx >
Subject: Accidental Move with Drag and Drop
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:46:50 -0800
Message-ID: <004801c2d910$6df6a520$a501280a@phx.gbl>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.registry

I finaly found it.

We had the same problem here with users draging folders by
mistake.

You can set the drag and drop or copy and paste files
confirmation prompt

Localy:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0]

"1802"=dword:00000001

AND on the intranet:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\1]

"1802"=dword:00000001

Enjoy!
Mike
----- End Original Message -----

For more information see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
KB182569. It describes how you can use Internet Explorer
Security Zone Settings (managed in the registry) to cause a "Do
you want to move or copy files from this zone?" prompt to appear
for all drag/drop/copy/paste/move actions on all files and
folders for a particular Zone. Zones include: My Computer, Local
Intranet Zone, Trusted sites Zone, Internet Zone, Restricted
Sites Zone.

KB182569 - Description of Internet Explorer Security Zones
Registry Entries
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;182569

More information on IE Security Zones:

Internet Explorer Security Zones by Scott Schnoll
http://www.nwnetworks.com/iezones.htm

Using Internet Explorer > How-to Articles: Setting Up
Security Zones
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/i [...] /setup.asp

And if you are in an Active Directory environment and need to
distribute the registry changes, perhaps the following Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article can help:

KB833633 - How to strengthen the security settings for the Local
Machine zone in Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;833633

Else, try posting in the following newsgroup:

Windows Server Active Directory
AKA: microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory

The following page has links you can click to access the
newsgroup with your Web browser, or with a Network News Transfer
Protocol (NNTP)-based newsreader such as Outlook Express.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Directory Services Newsgroups
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsse [...] fault.mspx