Problem With Drag And Drop (or So It Seems).

[iGuest 3]

lmao thanksProblem With Drag And Drop (or So It Seems).

Replying to FeedBacker

AhahaaDude you don't know how many days I have gone with that esc key stuck down, THANKS SO MUCH! hahahahaha wow whattaya know... Omg I was going crazy. Ill sort and fix up my folders and installing stuff and be like ok good thats done, now if I can just figure out this drag drop thing... Lmao, omg... I'm a dumbo

-reply by zizz

 

[iGuest 3]

Escape key Problem With Drag And Drop (or So It Seems).

Same problem as "reply by Annika" -- but doing that to the Escape key doesn't work -- even hit it with canned air, in case there was some "stuff" in there (we have a lot of wind where I live).

So now I'M stuck -- still no answer except rebooting.

Plus my mouse often goes crazy.  Closes programs, runs all over -- to stop it I hit Escape.  Then nothing works for a couple minutes.  No clue as to what starts the mouse craziness.  No pattern to what I'm doing at the time.

Still cannot drag and drop, so here's goes another reboot!

Anyone have any other ideas?

-question by Carol

 

[iGuest 3]

I had exactly the same symptoms.It turned out to be a sticking escape key.
Check it out. Hold down the escape key and try and drag and drop.

Regards
Ailuro

Someone linked in 2010 here:
http://it.thelibrarie.com/weblog/2010/06/drag-and-drop-stops-working/

That was then linked in 2011 here 2011 here
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/drag-and-drop-not-working-in-windows-7/f6dcfa11-8c51-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5

I brought it full circle in 2012!

This plagued me 6 times a year for years.
Thanks.

/sry old thread

[iGuest 3]

Hi, thanks for the solution. I've found that presing "SHIFT+ESC" will disable the drag and drop functionality on my Windos 7. I found that cause every time I run Task Manager with "CTLR+SHIFT+ESC" I lost drag and drop.

[yordan 10]

Wow! that has to be known! I run Task manager by alt-control-del inside any Windows version, we should remember not to use shft-Esc

[iGuest 3]

i've tried all ur solutions but no luck. anything else?