Re: Cannot drag onto a desktop icon

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Please repost your inquiry in the new Windows 64-bit newsgroup:
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"Martijn Saly" wrote:

| When dragging a file onto a desktop icon, the application will start and
| open the file you dragged onto the icon. For instance, if I drag movie.avi
| onto the virtualdub desktop icon, virtualdub starts and opens movie.avi.
| This should be the case for most applications, but it doesn't work. When
| dragging a file over a desktop icon, I just can't drop it on top on an icon,
| windows just wants to copy the file to desktop. The icon I'm trying to
| drag onto, also doesn't become blueish, indicating it doesn't work (which is
| correct).
|
| I'm running Windows XP x64 edition. I've never seen this phenomenon with the
| regular Windows, but I've *always* seen this phenomenon with the x64 edition.
|
| How to fix this?
|
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| Thanks,
|
| Martijn Saly
.



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