Windows 10: Drag and Drop stopped working, after disabling Quick Access

Is the only way to drag and drop is to keep the annoying quick access enabled?

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Drag and drop stops working at random

Drag and drop functionality stops working at random. Sometimes it works for a whole day, sometimes it stops working after an hour of PC usage. I can't drag any file in explorer, nor in my desktop. And drag and drop functionality stops working in some apps
as well (including Photoshop and Illustrator, which is a killer since I work as a designer).

So far I haven't found any other solution than a full restart.

I have tried the following:

1. Restarting, killing the explorer.exe process
2. Disabling any process/service that might have something to do with it
3. pressing the ESC key (I found this solution online, it worked for many)
4. killing the Synergy process (worked for many as well, but I don't have Synergy even installed)
5. Editing the EnableLUA registry (worked for many as well)

It is really time-consuming when I have to restart the machine, with many huge work-in-progress documents, Chrome tabs and programs opened.

Do anyone know what the issue might be?

Thank you very much.

 

Quick Access not working

On my Windows 10 machine Quick Access has suddenly stopped working. All the folders which were in in it have disappeared, and I am unable to pin folders to it. Neither right-clicking and selecting "Pin to Quick access" or dragging-and-dropping folders to
QA work. I do not receive any error message when I attempt this.

I have deleted the contents of Recent items, AutomaticDestinations, and CustomDestinations as per suggestions elsewhere then restarted the PC but this has unfortunately not resolved the issue.

 

Drag and Drop

Hi Charles,

the steps you suggested didn't work for me but, when pressing the escape key it somehow expanded the drive and by using drag and drop to the single file in the list worked.

In the past I could drag and drop multiple folders onto the drive on the network computer(s). Doing it on individual folders will take far too long and time consuming and is not an option.

Microsoft should be able to identify what is blocking it and issue a fix.

My machine is multi boot so tomorrow I will try with Windows 7.

Many thanks for your help,

Deric