Drag and drop is broken

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David Szlucha

For whatever reason I can't drop files onto a shortcut anymore. For example,
I could drop a file onto a "Winzip" folder and it would add that file to a
WinZip file. Now I just get the circle with a line through it. This happens
for all application/file types. I recall that this was an "OLE" thing in
earlier versions of Windows, did OLE somehow get corrupted on my machine?
Thanks.

David
 
Hi David,

It's due to a missing registry key. Click Start/Run and type this command:

REGSVR32 /i SHELL32.DLL

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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Window XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


For whatever reason I can't drop files onto a shortcut anymore. For example,
I could drop a file onto a "Winzip" folder and it would add that file to a
WinZip file. Now I just get the circle with a line through it. This happens
for all application/file types. I recall that this was an "OLE" thing in
earlier versions of Windows, did OLE somehow get corrupted on my machine?
Thanks.

David
 
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