I try to refrain from overusing [always,never] ;-)

>Yes, I thought of that. But again, I always rule out mucking with system-wide settings.
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>>With you on not changing Windows settings on the users machine willy-nilly. But an alternate approach might be to change the setting at start of the action, resetting when manual (mouse-pressed!) task is done. Existing danger opportunity of app erroring out while dragging without calling a reset function in error handler or machine blue-screening, sure, but might be handled with special reset code on next app start - even down to including a message about not resetting due to error and reccommending reset via app. ***Not*** saying I think this is a prudent way in general ;-)