Disable drag&drop or prevent unintentional use

[Jules]

I've question about drag&drop. I would like to disable it or make it almost impossible to move unintentionally whole subdirs. Is there a registry setting, or policy for it?
The almost perfect solution would be to replace the user, but then I wouldn't have a job....
But is there a technical solution to this problem?

Jules

 

[David Fisher [MSFT]]

Hello Jules.

There are no policies in Windows 2000 that will prevent the drag-and-drop
feature. Of course, the user is only able to drag-and-drop files and
folders that they have read/write access to. Would granting the user
'read-only' access to those files/folders provide a resolution to the issue?

David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support

I've question about drag&drop. I would like to disable it or make it

almost impossible to move unintentionally whole subdirs. Is there a registry
setting, or policy for it?

 

[Jules]

no, users move work directories containing data like reports they have to work on. I can delete and rename inhibit the directories but that won't prevent them moving the data.

How about a notification like 'do you really want to move this data" or something like that?

Jules

David Fisher [MSFT]<[email protected]> 10/29/03 11:15pm >>>

Hello Jules.

There are no policies in Windows 2000 that will prevent the drag-and-drop
feature. Of course, the user is only able to drag-and-drop files and
folders that they have read/write access to. Would granting the user
'read-only' access to those files/folders provide a resolution to the issue?

David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support

I've question about drag&drop. I would like to disable it or make it

almost impossible to move unintentionally whole subdirs. Is there a registry
setting, or policy for it?

 

[David Fisher [MSFT]]

Hello Jules.

Unfortunately, this feature does not exist in Windows 2000.

Another option that may work would be to granulize the permissions of the
files and folders, but this may cause too much administrative overhead.
If the users have only read access to the folders and full access to the
files within it, they will be unable to move the folders and have full
access to the files.

301195 HOW TO: Configure Security for Files and Folders on a Network
(Domain)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=301195

David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support

no, users move work directories containing data like reports they have to

work on. I can delete and rename inhibit the directories but that won't
prevent them moving the data.

How about a notification like 'do you really want to move this data" or something like that?

Jules

David Fisher [MSFT]<[email protected]> 10/29/03 11:15pm >>>

Hello Jules.

There are no policies in Windows 2000 that will prevent the drag-and-drop
feature. Of course, the user is only able to drag-and-drop files and
folders that they have read/write access to. Would granting the user
'read-only' access to those files/folders provide a resolution to the issue?

David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support

I've question about drag&drop. I would like to disable it or make it

almost impossible to move unintentionally whole subdirs. Is there a registry
setting, or policy for it?

The almost perfect solution would be to replace the user, but then I wouldn't have a job....
But is there a technical solution to this problem?

Jules

 

[Jules]

this solution is worse than doing nothing. They still have rights to move the files within those dirs to another directory where they have rights. During this move you'll probably lose rights assignments, resulting in more work to restore.

David Fisher [MSFT]<[email protected]> 10/30/03 08:22pm >>>

Hello Jules.

Unfortunately, this feature does not exist in Windows 2000.

Another option that may work would be to granulize the permissions of the
files and folders, but this may cause too much administrative overhead.
If the users have only read access to the folders and full access to the
files within it, they will be unable to move the folders and have full
access to the files.

301195 HOW TO: Configure Security for Files and Folders on a Network
(Domain)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=301195

David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support

no, users move work directories containing data like reports they have to

work on. I can delete and rename inhibit the directories but that won't
prevent them moving the data.

How about a notification like 'do you really want to move this data" or something like that?

Jules

David Fisher [MSFT]<[email protected]> 10/29/03 11:15pm >>>

Hello Jules.

There are no policies in Windows 2000 that will prevent the drag-and-drop
feature. Of course, the user is only able to drag-and-drop files and
folders that they have read/write access to. Would granting the user
'read-only' access to those files/folders provide a resolution to the issue?

David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support

I've question about drag&drop. I would like to disable it or make it

almost impossible to move unintentionally whole subdirs. Is there a registry
setting, or policy for it?

The almost perfect solution would be to replace the user, but then I wouldn't have a job....
But is there a technical solution to this problem?

Jules