disable right-click dragging

is it possible in XP to disable dragging a file or folder when you right-click on it?

 

I can't find any way to do that - you can disable drag & drop altogether (L and R buttons), but not just the right one.
Perhaps if you say why you want to do that, someone might have an alternative to suggest.

 

thanks for your reply

well, the reason is because I am using a pen graphics tablet as a mouse

when I right click on, for example, a folder on my desktop, sometimes the pen moves slightly between pressing right-click (a button on the pen) and releasing the right click, so then I accidentally trigger that small context menu asking me if I want to Copy the folder or Move the folder to there

http://driber.net/os/right_click_drag.jpg

 

Good problem! I can only think of turning down the pen sensitivity (which may have other negatives), or disabling drag and drop. Someone else might have a better idea though. :confused

 

pen sensitivity can't be adjusted but if it could, it would indeed bring a negative side-effect: unresponsiveness

what I did notice however is that XP has a few pixels of "error margin" on dragging

when I right-click on an icon and move the mouse (pen) just 1 or 2 pixels, no drag occurs. when I move it further than a few pixels, the dragging kicks in

if this could somehow be extended to say 30 pixels, then that would fix this problem

I wonder why this was built into Windows in the first place. Who ever uses this anyway.

 

If you haven't tried X-Setup, it might let you do what you want. In the attached thumbnail the setting is for the Windows default of 4 but, in the description box it says you can "enlarge the rectangle to whatever you find comfortable (for example 16 x 16 for a 1280x960 resolution)."

It doesn't give a limit on the size but there must be one. I'm sure this could be done with a registry edit too, but I don't know what it is. Possibly, some one else will post the registry info needed.

If you're unfamiliar with X-Setup, be careful. You could inadvertently make some unsavory(to say the least) changes to your system.

 

excellent, that did the trick!
thanks very much, plastidust

thanks to that program I also found where it's stored in the registry:

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-823518204-838170752-725345543-500\Control Panel\Desktop]

(the bold part can differ)

The strings are called DragHeight and DragWidth