Comments on: Rich drag & drop in Windows Vista

By: Bruswain

Bruswain — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:23:44 +0000

I’ve noticed in Vista that you can’t save a link to webpage by clicking and dragging the upper left corner “e” icon.

Anyone else noticed this, is there a fix or setting that will allow this?

thanks

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:33:42 +0000

XP and 2000 had this, but it wasn’t as helpful.

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:06:52 +0000

As other people mentioned this isn’t new, it’s in XP and probably 2000 and others as well.

By: rajo

rajo — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:45:42 +0000

Yeah and in typical MS-fashion, text indicators which tell users what will happen do not realign at right side of the screen, so you can’t see the text (for example if you drag files into bin in lower right corner) )

By: Gr1zz

Gr1zz — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:52:50 +0000

When i Drag&Drop files I always use right-click to drag. When you release to drop, it asks you if you want to copy or move. This is in XP too.

By: Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:07:30 +0000

I like the way explorer does this in vista

although I often use right-click-drag. it’s just easier to be certain about what u do with the files that way.
don’t forget that u’ve got shift to change a copy into a drag!

By: Marlone Finley

Marlone Finley — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:56:14 +0000

This feature was also prsent in XP, but it lacked the color and ‘obviousness’ that Vista brings. In XP, the tags were monochrome.

By: CoLD-FiRe

CoLD-FiRe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:15:00 +0000

Yeah, thank god stacks are still in!

But in saying that, they too have been sadly down-played!

I recommend for everyone to watch the Shell team Beta 1 video interview on C9
To see how much was cut/downplayed in Vista RTM from Beta 1!
What as shame really, I really think it just needed some further refining of the UI to make things look more obvious.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=114710

By: mrmckeb

mrmckeb — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:46:12 +0000

Stack is something I look forward to playing with in the future…

By: CoLD-FiRe

CoLD-FiRe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:39:30 +0000

I’m not on Vista atm, So I will have to check it out later.

Anyway I’m still pretty sure that the functionality I talked about prior has been cut. As in you can’t create Lists/Custom Lists anymore