Unfortunately Tweak UI doesn’t work in Windows Vista, so you’ll have to make the registry setting manually, or use the downloadable registry hack file I’ve provided, which will set the drag size to 20 pixels. You can test the effect by dragging the test icon around. Somewhere between 10-20 should help stop the accidental copying, but you might need to set it higher.
I wouldn’t set the value too high, because then it will make it difficult to drag things the way you normally would. Just click on Mouse on the left-hand side, and then change the value under “Drag” to something more than 4 pixels. What we’ll do is tell Windows not to assume that we’re dragging until we’ve move more than 4 pixels, which should eliminate this problem, but still make drag and drop work fine for regular operations. If you are running Windows XP, you can use Microsoft’s free Tweak UI utility to configure the drag setting easily. The reason this happens is because you moved your mouse more than 4 pixels while clicking down on a file, so Windows assumes you’ve dragged the files and want to copy them, and is happy to litter your folder with duplicates.
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