Kio Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 I'm looking modify or disable this dialog. I'm searching for files/resources but I have not found anything. Any ideas?
NoelC Posted May 23, 2015 Posted May 23, 2015 What would you want it to do? Overwrite the file quietly without a prompt? Not overwrite the file? Without knowing the answer to the above, I'll point out that there is an option in the Folder Options panel, View tab called "Hide folder merge conflicts" that causes Windows to handle file conflicts more automatically. Only other thing I could think of... I believe Classic Shell at one time could be configured to change the way Explorer dialogs like the one you showed to be more like older versions of Windows, but it doesn't work it for Windows 8 nor do I think they ever provided an option to overwrite without prompting. -Noel
xpclient Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 Replace the Windows copy engine with PerigeeCopy: http://winaero.com/blog/queue-copy-and-move-operations-in-windows-with-perigeecopy/(you can see screenshots of the overwrite/conflict dialog in that article).
HarryTri Posted May 30, 2015 Posted May 30, 2015 As far as I know/remember Windows always asked the user before overwriting a file and personally I am happy for that.
xpclient Posted May 31, 2015 Posted May 31, 2015 (edited) The point of replacing that dialog is choice and productivity. If you don't want to be prompted, you won't be by PerigeeCopy. Although personally I would never want to overwrite without being prompted. And second issue is productivity. The way Windows 8/10 does it - you must click "Compare info" to see the actual details which are essential to make a decision and then check at least 2 checkboxes (or even more) and then click Continue. It is neither intuitive . Sure you can click "Replace all" in the new dialog but you don't see any details unless you click "Compare info". The XP dialog which is similar to the one in PerigeeCopy, was superior because it had excellent mouse and keyboard usability and you saw all the details right upfront. All you had to do just 1 click thereafter - either Yes, Yes to All, No, or No to All. Edited May 31, 2015 by xpclient 1
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