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Remove the IE Drag & Drop Prompt

Like every power user, I'm annoyed with Microsoft's "you're about to hit a pothole" warnings. After installing a recent IE6 security update, I was smacked with an insipid dialog prompt every time I tried to copy an item (image or link) from Internet Explorer to the desktop. “Do you want to move or copy files from this zone?� Yes, I'm sure... I'm 100% positive I want to move or copy files from that zone. I must thank Dean Hachamovitch for the initial lead on this registry hack, although I had to change both the HKCU and HKLM subkey structures to eliminate the annoyance altogether:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\4]
@=""
"180B"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\4]
@=""
"180B"=dword:00000000

You can "safely" copy and paste that code into a new .REG file, then apply it to your own Registry by double-clicking the newly-created file. If you're skilled enough, you can probably change the Registry directly with REGEDIT. If you're too lazy to do any of that, I suppose you could download a ZIP file of the REG hack. And if you're not sure what any of this means, then I'm telling you not to change a damn thing.

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When you run this .reg it changes IE to only copy a shortcut from the web. I can’t drag images anymore.

This worked well for me. That warning was driving me nuts. Thanks!

Thank you kindly for this. It’s the only thing that removed IE’s annoying prompt. Like Jade, I can only drag shortcuts (of images that are hyperlinked), but it works just peachy on images that aren’t linked.

Hello, Greetings!
Bye.

Many thanks to you and Dean. Worked wonderfully.

Not working for me in IE8…

Thank you Jesus.
I was ready to start smashing things, after having changed every conceivable IE setting and local security policy to get rid of that stupid popup every time I copied a file from a Windows server.

i also used this reg change and now my drag and drop copies a shortcut instead of the actual file
is there a way to undo this?

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