Drag and drop broken windows xp

If you obfuscate any information requested, I will obfuscate my response. These are virtual UUIDs, not real ones. What I have discovered, just after posting my reply, is that if I uninstall the 6. I suspect that uninstalling the old guest additions leaves something behind that is possibly getting in the way. I will set up a totally new virtual machine, install the 6. If it goes haywire I can definitely supply the logs, but I don't want to waste your time if there is something that I can do myself.

Although, it does get a little frustrating when what should "just work" suddenly stops. My problem is taken care of, thanks to just getting the driver un-corrupted. But to answer your questions, all my symptoms were irrespective of applications running -- in fact, even with no applications running I sometimes had the problem. I am using IE 7. The good news is, it appears to have been a driver problem, pure and simple.

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Students Click Here. Suddenly, we cannot drag and drop items in Windows Explorer. There were no new programs installed, nothing unusual before this started happening. We have run updated virus scans and AdAware with no results. Cut and paste works, but not drag and drop. Anyone have any ideas? This is often an indication of the blaster worm or one of its many variants. Thanks for the prompt response, Bill, but I don't think blaster, or any other virus, is the problem.

Good, then we can try two other remedies. Bill, Never mind, I poked about a bit more and found where you sent me. Just a longshot. Right click on the start button Select properties Highlight the start menu tab Click customize Highlight the advanced tab Scroll down Enable dragging and dropping checked. Yep, that's exactly what we did, plus a reboot. Syar, Thanks for the suggestion, but the box was already checked. Last two thoughts for tonight: 1. When you have run your Virus Scans are they set for "All Files"?

I had the exact problem as rocmills, plus drag and drop problems with my desktop and start menu I suspected it was a virus and used a w I followed the instructions in this post and have not been able to fix this problem. Sorry about the false alarm. I had the same problem after running a registry cleaner perhaps I was a little too enthusiastic. Well, I did have the same problem.

I've had a problem with my computer now for quite sometime. To get further information about the error look in your Event viewer. Also, have you checked to see if any Bios update is available? In this way, you can try disabling UAC. Then change its value data to 0.

When you have finished all steps, close the Registry Editor window and reboot your computer to take effect. Then check whether the issue drag and drop not working Windows 10 is solved. At last, we will show you the last solution to drag and drop not working Windows 7. In this way, you can try changing drag height and width. Now, follow the instruction to continue. Step 1: In this way, you also need to open the Registry Editor window again.

So, for the detailed instruction, please refer to the steps listed above. Don't install any unnecessary programs just some virus scanners, keep the parallel installation as simple as possible. See the paragraph in this article. I wish I had something helpful to say about it, but the simple fact that I have the identical symptoms as another user means this issue is likely not user error or a unique isolated case.

That in itself is sort of helpful, right? I reaching here If anyone can help with this please do, I would be most greatful. This is the only result I get that describes my problem exactly from google, so this is my last hope.

Thank you in advance. Have a read of this thread, there are starting to be a few problems with SP3. It would help in that matter if you contacted Microsoft and started an Incident Report. Support for Service Pack issues is free. What phone number do I call to get this free support? I tried the online chat and support but it told me I would have to pay. If you click on Start then Help and support will it start?

The service will not start. I don't see how it's connected. BUT if it was that would be interesting. SP3 Support from Microsoft. You may have to add a registry entry to re-enable this functionality. I just upgraded to SP3 and found using "Process Monitor" that an Internet zone policy was being checked in the registry that doesn't exist.

Hope this helps. I stumbled across this page this morning, and when I got home I saw this last post. Confirmed fix. Yep that did it for me! It will only apply to that user. Does anyone have an idea of how to apply it to all users? Thank you all for your efforts, my issue is now resolved. To StaplesMan: Sorry for the late response.