Cool, but Windoze already does that...?

The contest is still in the works! I just have been busy with personal (you know how things tend to happen that you can't plan for) stuff, but I still plan to host one. There is quite a number of newer builders around, and I hope that they will take part!

Yes it's that so-called "feature" of moving files by "drag and drop"! I have hated this feature ever since Microsoft introduced it in Windows 95 -- long before I started playing The Sims. I especially hated it when I was doing "support" and working on other people's computers, because I had no idea how other people might arrange their files. It was all to easy to pick up a file or a folder and drop it somewhere without knowing I'd even done it, far less where it had "landed". I never intentionally use drag and drop to move or copy files. I always use cut and paste or copy and paste. I know I can undo the last action if I know I've moved something by mistake, but often I don't know, and "Undo" is another place where I'm working blind, as Windows doesn't tell me what it's undoing. I'd love to disable this alleged "feature", but in 29 years of looking, I've never found a way to do so. Does anyone know a way to disable it?

Maybe this really belongs in the Grrr! Pet Peeves thread!!

I don't think there's a Group Policy for disabling this as such, but a workaround I used to use when trying to stop this on a school or college domain was to make the drag minimum greater than the screen resolution.
https://www.top-password.com/blog/d...-in-windows-10/

Undoing can occasionally cause more problems, especially if it's moving a large folder, or you don't know what it's undoing (depending what it's trying to undo, I've had warnings about deleting permanently - especially if it's a very large folder).

If I accidentally "lose" folders or files this way (happens from time to time), I tend to search for the folder/file name, or check if a nearby folder has been recently changed (meaning it probably has the folder inside). Usually I can find it that way.

I would rather not play in the registry, and besides in my Windoze (7) there is no easy way to get into the registry.

Sure there is- Win key+R, type regedit. But my reply was really aimed at AndrewGloria who I know is well versed with the Windows operating system; I certainly wouldn't recommend editing the registry for beginners, or those who don't know how to backup the registry.

also for god's sake stay away from the registry "cleaners"

Thanks simmer22 and simsample. I do feel confident about making that small edit to the registry. But I'll probably leave till after I've run my weekly computer backup tomorrow night. Just in case!!

And I won't be using a "cleaner". I'll just make that small manual edit myself.

I do use a registry cleaner, only because I find that using browsers such as Mozilla and windows does leave cruft in the registry. It's tracking stuff, and I don't want it doing that. Also, DRM keys.
I've been using the same registry cleaner for 20 years and it's never screwed up the machine yet.

But you have the chutzpah to share them! I've convinced myself anything I want to do has been done before or is too niche for anyone else to care about, so I don't even share. Why would anyone want a bunch of variations of the City House lot so I could create streets of row houses, community skilling lots for rabbit hole jobs, or the orchard lot I built solely as a wedding venue? Lately I've been making a bunch of teen careers and a chain of coffee shops. Clearly such things are of use to no one but me


Well if you like to see that, hope this helps I'm good at interiors but pretty rubbish at architecture (especially modern), so when I had an idea to build community lots for the majors at university, I used a few of your builds as inspo for exterior shells. This is the science lab and the art building.

I tend to agree; most users would not really understand what was safe to delete and what was not. Many entries that are left over from uninstalling programs are harmless, and a lot of damage can be done by giving a third party program administrator access to your registry.