What??™s more, you can use some basic tricks to change what happens.
Here are the basic drag-drop rules by which Vista lives:
??? If you drag an object from one place to another on the same physical
drive (C:\docs to C:\files), Windows moves the object.
??? If you drag an object from one physical drive to another physical drive
(C:\docs to D:\files), Windows copies the object, resulting in two identical
files on your PC.
Figure 2-14. Windows Explorer lets you use checkboxes to select items
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??? If you drag an object from one place to another in the same folder, Windows
does nothing.
??? If you drag an object into the Recycle Bin, Windows moves the file into
the Recycle Bin folder, where it is eventually deleted.
??? If you drag an object into a ZIP folder anywhere, Windows copies the
file. (See ???Zip It Up,??? later in this chapter.)
??? If you drag certain system objects, such as Control Panel icons, anywhere
else, Windows makes shortcuts to those items.
??? If you drag any file onto an application executable (.exe) file, Windows
opens the target application and then sends a signal to the application
to open the dropped document. See ???File Type Associations,??? in
Chapter 3, for details.
That??™s about it. It used to be that Windows did different things with different
types of files, such as creating a shortcut any time you dragged an .exe
file, but thankfully, those days are over.
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