Windows 10: Can't drag shortcuts from the start menu to the desktop anymore...

Since recently, I can't drag en drop icons from my start menu to my desktop anymore... When I click the icon and drag it to the desktop, I see it on the desktop, with the overlay that a shortcut will be created there, but when I release the mouse button, the round waiting cursor appears for a second, and then the shortcut is gone again. After that, I can't even start dragging a shortcut from the startmenu, until I restart the explorer process.

Creating shortcuts "from scratch" on my desktop works perfectly.

My system:

Mainboard: MSI H110 PC MATE
Processor: I7-6700
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2 x 8GB
Grahpics card: MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G
Windows 10 version: 1607 / Build 14393.321

:)

 

Microsoft Edge Shortcut on Desktop?

Bringing up the Start menu, left clicking on Microsoft Edge and holding the button down while dragging the icon to the desktop did create a desktop shortcut for me on 240. I agree that you can't drag the Task bar's Edge icon, and so can't create the shortcut
that way, and that right clicking the Start menu Edge icon doesn't give you a menu item to create a desktop shortcut.

So, yes, most of us can create a desktop shortcut for Edge on Windows 10, but not the same way as we might have created a desktop shortcut in previous Windows versions.

Are we missing a detail somewhere.

 

Windows 10 system Tiles to Icons

drag the tile from the start menu to the desktop, a shortcut will be created

 

Nobody with the same problem or a possible solution? *Sad

 

That used to happen to me, you should get a small popup that says "create shortcut here?"

I got sick of hassling with it, so I installed Startdock Start10.

 

Try running sfc /scannow from an admin command prompt to check/repair system files.

 

If that doesn't help, fixing this sort of issue often requires an in-place upgrade repair install.. kind of a bigger issue now given the size of cumulative updates.

Get Classic Shell (free) unless you really need tiles, and enjoy a properly working search feature and start menu.

 

Hello Tom, *Smile

Since you have NVIDIA graphics, you might see if installing the latest 375.63 driver version may help. The 375.57 version had a bug that causes issues with Start and the Mail app. Hopefully it may help.

Latest NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers for Windows 10

 

Thanks for all the tips, guys. I'll try them out tonight. Not to keen to install third party tools, but If the driver update and / or the system scan doesn't work, I might give it a try anyway.

 

"Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations." So no problems there...

This seemed to do the trick! I indeed had 375.57 installed, and by coincidence, today my GeForce app proposed to install 375.63. Installed this driver, rebooted, and now the problem seems to be solved.

Thanks everybody for contributing! Glad this works again *Wink.