Windows xp drag and drop move

Subscribe without commenting E-Mail:. Want to have your AD seen here? What Next? Leave a comment Subscribe to Watching The Net. Useful tip thatnks. Any idea what could cause this or where I could reset the effect? Leave a Comment Click here to cancel reply. Copyright Watching The Net. All Rights Reserved. Details required :. Cancel Submit. HTH, JW. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Edmond Hi Edmond, Drag with the left mouse button will only copy a file.

Drag with the right mouse button gives you the option to copy or move it when you let go of the button. Can drag a file into notepad and open it. Can drag icons to the start menu without any problems.

Can right click and copy and past without any problems. Things that do not work Can't drag a file to a folder. Can't right click drag no menu will show Holding down Ctrl while dragging will show plus sign but does not work.

And while I drag the, ghost icon appears as normal, with the cursor. But just does not copy, or move the file as expected. Remove SP3 and everything returns back to normal. But you may ask why install SP3 then? Simple, my computer does not automatically Hibernated.

This problem is fixed when I install SP3. Any idea from anyone as to why SP3 is causing this problem? O and I have read this entire post nothing seemed to work. I left the computer running last night. And it never went into Hibernation.

So I guess I can remove SP3 if need be. But while it's installed I would like to get the Drag and Drop working.

One other test I have done. I can drag an item out of the control panel to the desktop, and it will crate a shortcut without any problem. But if I drag a file to a folder with the Alt key down it will show the shortcut icon like it's going to create a shortcut. But will not create one. Have you tried drag and drop from Safe Mode, or from Normal Mode but as a different user? Have you tried a different Mouse? Drag and drop does work just not to copy programs so I have not worried about another mouse.

Safe mode same problems as normal. Different user accounts same problem. These programs do you mean. If not are they downloaded from the Internet, or how did they end up on your machine? Does it throw any errors in the Event Viewer when dragging fails? I right clicked on the desktop and selected new text document. Then created a new folder. Attempted to move the file into the folder. No go Can't drag and drop off of my server eather.

I did check the IE7 settings and it's enabled. I'll reading over my event logs now. Will get back on that one. I can delete a file using delete on the keyboard.