Windows 10: I can't drag and drop files into programs on windows 10

I make music for a living. I use many different daw's for this.
Not too long ago I could drag a sound file from a folder, and drop it into one of my programs.
Now when I try to do this I am met with a black circle with a slash through it as soon as I drag the file over the program.

Is there a fix for this?

Again this only dragging and dropping files into open programs.

I have tried the ESC method
I have tried the closing and restarting of explorer.exe

I have googled and tried many different way to no avail.

Please advise.

thank you

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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

 

Drag and Drop

When using "Drag and Drop":

• "Alt + left mouse button" to create a Link/Shortcut
• "Ctrl + left mouse button" to Copy the file
• "Shift + left mouse button" to Move the file

 

Drag and drop from File Explorer to other programs

How come I can not drag and drop files into other programs anymore, by that way quickly open/import those files?

For my work, I use a lot of different files. On one monitor I have the programs I work in, on the other explorer.

When I want to use or import a file, I always just drag/dropped the file from the explorer to the program, and the program would react to it.

Now, in windows 10, this does not seem to be the case anymore. Just nothing happens. Now I have to use the programmenu to open up a different explorer and find the file. This is taking time.

I've done a little research, but as windows 10 is still very new, there is not much info around on this subject. Only thing I could find, was people suggesting disabling UAC, but this would disable several features, like Metro apps and the start menu.

Anyone with more info on this? Thanks in advance.