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Can't Drag and Drop

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Name: Doug
Date: November 11, 1998 at 09:01:32 Pacific
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I am unable to drag and dop with win95, what could be the problem?



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Response Number 1
Name: 'o-Dzin Tridral
Date: March 29, 1999 at 13:30:13 Pacific
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I'm having precisely the same problem.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!


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Response Number 2
Name: James
Date: April 14, 1999 at 10:20:00 Pacific
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I'm having the same problem. In addition, I can't paste files from within windows explorer.


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Response Number 3
Name: James
Date: April 14, 1999 at 11:19:21 Pacific
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I fixed the problem by installing Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.


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Response Number 4
Name: Philip Allen Kratzer
Date: April 23, 1999 at 00:07:14 Pacific
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I'm having the same problem. The drag and drop has stopped working in explorer, on my desktop and in word. I suspect everywhere. Also I can cut or copy but not paste. When running PCMedic 95, it found a virus (w32/ska.exe) in the file happy99.exe that was attached to an email (though I don't believe happy99.exe was ever run). The problem was first noticed today and re-installing win95 and before finding the virus. The virus has been deleted and no others found but the problem is persisting. Next step is to reload win95 again but I don't know it that will help. Has anyone else solved this? Please forward the answer to me directly as I don't check this board. Thanks


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Response Number 5
Name: Frank
Date: June 2, 1999 at 09:46:50 Pacific
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Like James, I also fixed the problem by first uninstalling and reinstalling the Internet Explorer 4.0


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Response Number 6
Name: John J. Cruz
Date: July 28, 1999 at 20:19:53 Pacific
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Hi Folks,

I have the same win95 problem that is global on my PC box. I can not "drag and
drop" on any program (e.g., explorer, word, etc.). When I execute any
program for example Word, the following message appears: "This document
could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from
other documents to this document." This message even shows up when in
Word I open any file.

I have re-installed Windows 95 even though I did not re-format the hard
drive as suggested by the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM. This did not
solve the problem. I suspect a file or flag is missing but I don't know
which one. Can you folks help?

jjc


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Response Number 7
Name: Kasper de Bruyn
Date: September 22, 1999 at 20:22:54 Pacific
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This seems to be caused by re-installing windows without first un-installing IE4 or IE5. The offending file seems to be \Windows\System\Dispex.dll. To correct this problem. 1. Restart from safe mode dos delete Dispex.dll. 2. Restart windows and uninstal IE4 or IE5. 3. Restart from safe mode dos delete Dispex.dll if it exists. Restart windows and install IE4 or IE5.
The Drag & Drop should now work and MSWord97 should register files correctly.


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Response Number 8
Name: eagle
Date: December 9, 1999 at 19:42:22 Pacific
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if anyone can help me tellink me how i start
from dos to safe mode
ill apresiate it
thanks


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Response Number 9
Name: techichica
Date: January 5, 2000 at 14:27:53 Pacific
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i have uninstalled IE 4, have renamed all files related to IE and have installed Windows 95 and IE 3.2. but i am still unable to drop and drag. I also followed the suggestion in response #7. I am getting the same error message as Mr. Cruz in Response #6 "This document
could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links from
other documents to this document." Can someone direct me on a solution? Thanks!


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Response Number 10
Name: zac
Date: January 10, 2000 at 18:03:26 Pacific
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I can't frag and drop mp3 files on to my cd burner software if anyone has an imation cd burner please e-mail me.
thanx
------zac


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Response Number 11
Name: Susan Nicholson
Date: January 24, 2000 at 16:17:51 Pacific
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I am also having the same Drag and Drop problem!!!
This problem started after I uninstalled internet explorer (it was still working after I uninstalled), the only thing I have done to the computer was download aol 5.0. If anyone is able to find out this problem please let me know!!!!


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Response Number 12
Name: Michelle Greene
Date: February 15, 2000 at 14:16:36 Pacific
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Was anyone able to solve this problem. Pleae advise via email. Thanks!


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Response Number 13
Name: Srikanth
Date: February 22, 2000 at 22:08:49 Pacific
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Hi,
Iam having an Applet to which i want to Include the drag and drop functionality.
It's getting Hanged when i add the Functionality to the applet.
My Application is a Front end with Back end as Jasmine data base which build's Templates depending upon user Selection of Various things.Upon successful login he will be displayed with a TreeStructure which contains all the templates builded.
I want to drag and drop the Html files already present in the windows explorer director to my present Application and vice versa.
Can any one Guide me Reg this Issue


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Response Number 14
Name: Victoria Howard
Date: March 14, 2000 at 06:12:28 Pacific
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I received an email from someone that I had sent a resume to inside the email was the Happy99.exe attachment. I opened it without scanning but did not download to my computer. After opening I realized that I should have scanned for viruses and did so to find the w32/ska.exe virus. Will I eventually start hab=ving problems with my drop and drag feature, I do not as of right now but I am curious if it takes some time to start. I would appreciat any feedback on this subject. thank you

V


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Response Number 15
Name: michael
Date: April 25, 2000 at 02:10:48 Pacific
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after reinstalling win95 (without format c:) i couldn`t drag and drop in windows-explorer, word, excel and other programms. i solved this problem by deinstalling IE4.0.
i didn`t reinstall IE 4.0 after that, now i`m working with netscape-communicator.
drag and drop functionallity works fine now.


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Response Number 16
Name: luc vandevelde
Date: July 25, 2000 at 17:52:46 Pacific
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Had same problem.
After starting some programs... unable to drag and drop
Traced the bug down with a file-activity-logger. (Opentrap)
All programs that caused the problem had ole32.dll in common.
Seems like some apllication replaced it with
a newer, but buggy version... dunno what application though

replaced ole32.dll with original version

Everything works fine now.


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Response Number 17
Name: Stefano
Date: December 14, 2000 at 02:59:19 Pacific
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Hi,
I had the same problem few days ago: I had reinstalled 95 without uninstall IE5. I solved this problem by uninstalling IE5 (option: Previous windows configuration) and installing IE4 SP1 twice (after the 1st inst. I still had an error message regarding LOADWC.EXE).


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