smackfoo.com | I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Sometimes Microsoft products are easy to navigate, other times like this, they just plain don’t make sense.

Seriously - pick one option, or the other, before presenting a closed yes/no question to the user. The question reads as though the user has to choose between either a copy, or a move. In actual fact Internet Explorer is asking if one wishes to transfer a file from the ‘Internet zone’ to a ‘local zone’.

This is due to IE recognising a difference between the source file(s) location (e.g. non local) and the target destination (e.g. local) which crosses IE security boundaries.

Obviously this dialog box is there for a reason - it’s designed to remind you that you’re about to transfer content that resides in an area Internet Explorer (which is embedded in Windows XP) recognises as less safe than your local PC.

“Do you want to receive Internet Zone file(s) which may contain unsafe content?” strikes me as a better closed question.

Otherwise it’s like asking “Do you want a burger with fries, or a burger with a sundae?” with a yes/no as the only option.