Thank you, thank you thank you! You have made one lady happy. I see
where that would happen, I don't exactly have a steady hand. Have a
good one and thanks for a quick response..
:
This is caused by not having a steady hand.
By moving one's hand slightly which also moves the mouse and all the
files that are selected, Windows interprets this as dragging which
copies the files. Done this plenty of times myself. ;-)
You either have to practice or set the drag sensitivity differently.
Drag sensitivity specifies how far (in pixels) the mouse must
move with the button held down before the system decides
that you are dragging the object. Increase this value if you
find that you are dragging objects accidentally when you click
on them.
The only way to adjust the drag sensitivity that I know of is with
TweakUI.
Download TweakUI here >>>
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
These are all the Mouse settings that can be set with TweakUI.
TweakUI
[+] Mouse
Menu Speed
The Menu Speed slider control sets the speed at which
cascading menus automatically open when you move the
mouse over them. The fastest setting causes them to open
immediately and the slowest setting is extraordinary slow.
To test the mouse setting, right-click the test icon.
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Double-click sensitivity
Double-click sensitivity specifies how close together two
mouse clicks need to be (in pixels) to be considered a
double click.
To test the double-click sensitivity, click twice on the test icon
with the left mouse button. If the two clicks registered as a
double-click, then the icon will change.
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Drag sensitivity
Drag sensitivity specifies how far (in pixels) the mouse must
move with the button held down before the system decides
that you are dragging the object. Increase this value if you
find that you are dragging objects accidentally when you click
on them.
To test drag sensitivity, try to drag the test icon with the
left mouse button. The icon will begin dragging when you
have moved the mouse the necessary distance.
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Hover
This is used to detect when the mouse hovers over the icon to get
selected. The size of the region is determined by the hover sensitivity
in pixels. -----
Wheel
This is used to control the number of lines when the mouse wheel is
scrolled. This can be either one page at a time or a particular number
of lines at a time.
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X-Mouse
The “Activation follows mouse†checkbox enables X-Mouse
style window activation. When X-mouse style window activation is
enabled, you need
only move the mouse into a window in order to give it focus. Normally
you must click on a window in order to give it focus.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In Mrs. Juanita Sutphin <Mrs. Juanita (e-mail address removed)>
hunted and pecked:
Somehow in my pictures I have multiple copies of a bunch of them.
When I try to delete the copies they replace themselves. How do I
stop them from doing that? I know its probably really simple, but
alas I can't seem to figure it out. Thank you!
Juanita
