Right-click mouse drag

Posted by Vic Laurie
October 27, 2005

The Blake blog has a collection of useful Windows tips. One discusses using the left-click mouse drag:

When using a mouse to move a file, it sometimes surprisingly copies the file, or creates a shortcut instead!

This behavior is why I always recommend the right-click mouse drag instead. When using the right-click to drag, you get a menu that allows you to select from a number of actions.

Computer management

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