{"id":17401,"date":"2021-11-30T07:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=17401"},"modified":"2021-11-30T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T07:03:54","slug":"change-default-drag-and-drop-action-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-default-drag-and-drop-action-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Default Drag and Drop Action in Windows 11 \/ 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I change default file drag-and-drop action to copy instead of move? In Windows 11 \/ 10, when you drag a file and drop it to a folder on a different drive, File Explorer will perform the copy<\/code> action. If you drag a file and drop it to a folder on the same drive, the default action is move<\/code>.<\/p>\n

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Actually, you can let Windows perform the same action for every drag-and-drop operation, regardless of whether you’re dragging files to the same or different drive. In this tutorial we’ll show you a simple method to change the default drag and drop action in Windows 11 \/ 10.<\/p>\n

How to Change Default Drag and Drop Action in Windows 11 \/ 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Registry Editor<\/a>. In the left pane, expand the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT<\/strong> key and right-click the *<\/strong> sub-key and select New<\/strong> -> DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.\n

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  2. Name the value DefaultDropEffect<\/strong>. Next, double-click it to modify its value data.\n

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  3. Change the value data to one of the following values, depending on which type of drag and drop behavior you would like to apply.\n
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    • Default action (0): Let Windows decide to copy or move files\/folders when you drag and drop it into place.<\/li>\n
    • Always copy (1): A copy of the file\/folder will always be placed at the destination.<\/li>\n
    • Always move (2): The file\/folder will move to the destination.<\/li>\n
    • Always create a shortcut (4): A link to the original file\/folder will always be placed at the destination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • Next, navigate to another sub-key AllFilesystemObjects<\/strong> and use the same method to create a new 32-bit DWORD value DefaultDropEffect<\/strong> with the same value data.\n

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    • Close Registry Editor. The new setting of drag and drop behavior will take effect immediately. If you’ve set DefaultDropEffect<\/strong> to 1, Windows will perform the copy action when you drag a file and drop it to a folder on the same drive.\n

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      \tTo undo the changes later, just delete the DefaultDropEffect<\/strong> value from both keys and you’re done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How can I change default file drag-and-drop action to copy instead of move? In Windows 11 \/ 10, when you drag a file and drop it to a folder on a different drive, File Explorer will perform the copy action. If you drag a file and drop it to a folder on the same drive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,4713],"tags":[4746,4748,4747],"class_list":["post-17401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","tag-change-drag-and-drop-default-action-in-windows","tag-change-drag-and-drop-from-copy-to-move","tag-drag-and-drop-move-instead-of-copy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17401"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17416,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions\/17416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}