A little more on Windows Drag and Drop
A few days ago I complained about the silly drag and drop behavior of several ZIP tools, my favorite 7-Zip included. My post contained a remark that this is actually a Windows problem, but I did not have any further information on it other than a few links to the 7-Zip forum where people talked about this. Thanks to an anonymous commenter on the earlier post I can now point to a good source of more information: The also fabulous WinSCP tool comes with a special drag and drop extension that works around the limitation of first unpacking to a temp file and then copying to the final destination, making unzip operations very slow. From the documentation page at http://winscp.net/eng/docs/dragext you can learn this: Here is short explanation: Windows drag&drop mechanics does not allow source application of drag&drop operation to find out easily, where the files are dropped. It is up to target application (Windows Explorer usually) to transfer files to destination. It is r