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DRAGGING AND DROPPING FILES IN EXPLORER

When you drag a file or folder (or group of them) from one place to another in Explorer you will usually end up either copying or moving them. This assumes you depress the left mouse button as you drag and drop; if you use the right mouse button, you're given an option in the context menu to choose whether you want to copy, move, or create a shortcut. If you drag and drop from one drive to another, it's always a copy. If you drag and drop with both source and destination being the same drive, it will usually be a move. One exception is when you drag and drop a program file; in this case the default is to create a shortcut. How do you tell what Windows is going to do? You can look at the lower right corner of the cursor as you drag it; if there is a small plus sign there then Windows will create a copy; if there is a small arrow, then Windows will create a shortcut; if there is no symbol at all, then the drag will perform a move operation.