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:
[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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9 Comments
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January 28th, 2008
at 9:45am
t ever enter select mode by accident. I’m sure it’ll happen eventually… and maybe video recording, to boot. Related Content: Sincerely Jeffrey Tome Is the iPhone a Good PDA? The Virtual Clipboard Inside your ComputerRemove the IE Drag & Drop PromptYour Name In Lights
jim
August 12th, 2006
at 8:50pm
When you run this .reg it changes IE to only copy a shortcut from the web. I can’t drag images anymore.
Jade
February 18th, 2007
at 1:10pm
This worked well for me. That warning was driving me nuts. Thanks!
Larashots
March 24th, 2007
at 8:19pm
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.
vhrqhu
May 23rd, 2007
at 9:49am
Hello, Greetings!
Bye.
v4nilla
July 25th, 2007
at 10:30pm
Many thanks to you and Dean. Worked wonderfully.
Me
September 2nd, 2008
at 2:36am
Not working for me in IE8…
Galius
March 26th, 2009
at 9:58am
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.
neko
October 23rd, 2009
at 1:58pm
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?