Windows 10: No drag and drop in Windows Explorer (and other oddities)

You didn't say you were getting a red circle status indicator on the DnD. My assumption was that the drop target was not being recognized. This is a totally different problem than what I had been trying to help you troubleshoot.

 

No, not that I know of. It's the Win10 build 10130 full install. No Explorer add-ons. I did install Adobe CC & Acrobat and ACDSee. I will check if that's got anything to do with it. Would be surprised though, never has before. Which Icons are different?

 

Yes, I did.
"I cannot drag and drop within Windows Explorer (sort of)
- I can drag and drop within the same Folder/subfolder structure, e.g. on the right side of Windows Explorer I can dnd a file to a subfolder but I cannot dnd a file over to the left side (This PC) to any of the folders, nas drives, san drives or local drives (shows red crossed through circle)"

Last part in brackets. Might not have found the right words to describe it though....

 

So, at the end of the rope and my patience.

Installed and tested 2 alternative Windows Explorer apps and they both let me drag and drop wherever I want.

So, this must be something within Windows Explorer blocking me, right? Or is that too simplistic?

 

Upgrading to 10147 solved the dnd issue. But even though I chose to upgrade and retain my old settings, some stuff windows just reset. One of those is the Libraries, Pictures, Downloads etc. folders in Explorer (which I removed through the registry). I have a slight suspicion that was the culprit. I'll fiddle with it a little later and see if it kills dnd again.

 

loungebob,

I know it's been a few weeks since you posted this problem with DnD. I'm having the same problem and I also tweaked the registry to remove certain items from File Explorer. Do you know at this time whether the registry tweaks was causing the problem?

 

If Drag and Drop worked before you tweaked the registry and it didn't after than it's the tweaks that did it.

 

Yeah, probably. I'm just not sure if that was when the DnD problem started. I think it was, not sure

 

Try to undo the hacks and see what happens. If it fixies the issue than the problem was/is in the hacks to the registry.

 

It most definitely was one of the reg hacks. Even when I just reinstalled the same build, it restored DnD ability. Was too lazy to go and figure out which one broke it though.

 

And I hate, hate, hate that MS decides to restore certain reg settings when I install security patches! GRRRRR!

 

Friendly greetings!
I had the exact same problem and found this thread via Google a couple days back. Since then, I've tried lots of things and nothing worked. Now I've finally found the culprit. It was a registry hack from a website called Windows Central that removes Quick Access from the File Explorer. In the following registry path...

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}

...the DWORD value "Attributes" was changed from a0100000 to a0600000. This takes care of the Quick Access folder, but also removes drag and drop functionality from the navigation pane. After changing Attributes back to a0100000, everything is back to normal. I'll just leave this here in case someone else runs into the same issue.

 

How about plain drag and drop, like on a web course I'm doing. I have to drag and drop the matching answer and I can't move the icons.

 

My attributes are a0100000 and it still would not let me DnD. I found a youtube video where someone said VMWare was not yet fully compatible with 10, but add the tools. I added VMWare tools and DnD works like a charm. Just registered to post my results.

 

Thank you so much