Comments on: Windows Drag Sensitivity Utility

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:46:09 +0000

Thank you. This is such an annoying problem – obviously not just for this IT person. I can’t thank you enough for this simple and very effective fix.

By: paulmooreparks

paulmooreparks — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:06:45 +0000

Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner! The comment got lost in the shuffle somehow. The setting should remain in place after logoff, as the call to SystemParametersInfo specifies the SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE flag so that the user profile is updated with the change.

I’m afraid I don’t know how to make this part of a group policy; I suppose you could call it from a login script, but that seems clunky. I’m not much of an admin, though.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:12:00 +0000

Paul-

This is a wonderful tool for us IT managers who know very limited programming! Thank you. Is there any way that you know of to embed this in a GPO?

And, once this setting is applied, does it remain in place after logon/logoff and/or reboot?

Lastly, is this setting computer based or user based? XP and Win7 clients.

Thank you again!

By: paulmooreparks

paulmooreparks — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:57:17 +0000

Did you open the command prompt prior to running dragsens? If you run the utility with no parameters from an already-open command prompt it will display some help text and exit, returning you to the prompt. If you just run the utility by itself, it will open a new command prompt and then immediately close it.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:06:53 +0000

As soon as I run the program, the command prompt instantly closes. Help?

By: Meir

Meir — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:23:20 +0000

I looked all over the internet to no avail, until I found the solution here.
Simple Elegant and more importantly It Works.

Thanks a million.

Meir.

By: Paul M. Parks

Paul M. Parks — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:41:51 +0000

You're quite welcome. I'm glad you found it useful.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:28:27 +0000

Thank you so much!! I've been looking for something like this since I'm not a programmer.

By: acatalept

acatalept — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:22:14 +0000

Great work, and a huge help. Been trying to find a solution to this for a long time.

Note that one can effectively disable Windows's native drag and drop completely by setting this threshold great than the display's resolution (e.g., 2000 for a 1920x1080 display).

Thanks!