Re: Cannot drag a link from Outlook Express to IE anymore

From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.0rg)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:00:16 -0700

If you continue to refuse to reply as requested to the responses for help, I
guess you're stuck. You've been asked to run a brief script in Internet
Explorer to advise us of the version you are using, along with updates
you've installed. Without that information, it's hard to be helpful.

FWIW, I'm not aware of any *bug* that would prevent you from dragging a link
from anywhere, including an email message to anywhere you desire, whether it
is to a document, a folder or to the address bar in Internet Explorer or to
the Start/Run line. Continue with your diatribe as you desire, but you may
find that answers will no longer be forthcoming. Open your browser, insert
this into the address bar:

             javascript:navigator.appMinorVersion

and then post back with the complete, exact results as shown in the screen.
Or not. It's your choice. 

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
"MGB" <MikeB@americansuccessmortgage.com> wrote in message 
news:44a2153e.0410271524.257b7b4c@posting.google.com...
> This is not an IE bug as your request for information on IE suggests.
> The bug is in Outlook Express since you can't drag any link from an
> email message to IR or to a folder in Windows Explorer. This Bug was
> introduced from the latest security update from Microsoft. The loss of
> this feature makes openning and savign links very time consuming.
> Clicking on the link does you no good if you want to save the link and
> it does you no good if you use multiple browsers and your default
> browser is not IE. For that matter you might want to drag the link in
> a different browser. Regardly, the is a BUG that Microsoft intoduce to
> Outlook Express and I want to know how to fix it.
>
>
>
>
> "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message 
> news:<eFDDvR6uEHA.2536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
>> Copy/paste the following line into an IE Addressbar, click on GO, then
>> copy/paste the results into your reply:
>>
>>     javascript:navigator.appMinorVersion
>>
>> Also state your Windows version.
>> -- 
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
>>
>> blank gmail wrote:
>> > "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> > news:<eGOjzbuuEHA.4044@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
>> > > If you click on the link, does it open in IE?
>> >
>> > Suffering from the same problem (as are others who have emailed me
>> > from my earlier post).
>> >
>> > The answer is yes, clicking works fine.
>> > Dragging does not even change to the drag cursor as it used to.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Uninstalling hotfixes:
>> >
>> >        KB840987  on 10/15/2004
>> >        KB841356  on 10/15/2004
>> >        KB841533  on 10/15/2004
>> >
>> > which appeared to have created the problem did not resolve it.
>> >
>> > I am thinking of re-installing OE6 from scratch. Comments?
>> >
>> > > MGB wrote:
>> > > > I have OE6 on Win2K and last week I downloaded some security 
>> > > > updates
>> > > > from Microsoft which apparently disabled the drag and drop of a 
>> > > > link
>> > > > in the email to a folder or IE window. I would like to know how I 
>> > > > can
>> > > > fix this feature since it is now a royal pain to do a link shortcut
>> > > > copy and past to
>> > > > the address of a browser window. Please tell me how to fix this 
>> > > > BUG.

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