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Click & Drag, Cut & Paste Problem

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Name: Nemo
Date: September 22, 2003 at 19:23:49 Pacific
OS: XP Professional
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 1050 MHz/768 M
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Hello,

The problem I'm having is after my computer has been running for a while if I try to Click & Drag an item it doesn't do anything, same with cutting and pasting, nothing happens.

The only way I can fix this is by rebooting, when I do, it all runs fine but once again after some time, I have the same problem again...Does anyone know what could be causing this.

I thought I had this problem fixed a couple of weeks ago, what I did was I cleaned my Registry with TuneUp Utilities and Defragged all my HD's with Diskeeper 8.0 Pro...I even removed all Spyware with Spybot.

Everything was running fine for about 2 weeks, but it seems the problem has arisen once again, I've tried running TuneUP, and Defragging my HD's but it doesn't seem to fix the problem this time. I also know it's not a virus because I've done a complete System scan with Norton.

Please help if you can, because I am very confused.

Thank you.




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Response Number 1
Name: Freedom
Date: September 23, 2003 at 01:21:11 Pacific
Reply:

How full is your hard disk. Is there room for XP to drop stuff you copy/cut onto a clipboard? Is the pagefile running out of room?


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Response Number 2
Name: NemoX
Date: September 23, 2003 at 07:10:41 Pacific
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I have plenty of HD space...my C: drive has 33% free Space, D: has 21% Free and E: has 33% free...I set Paging file to System Managed.


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Response Number 3
Name: Freedom
Date: September 23, 2003 at 07:44:30 Pacific
Reply:

I think you have done all you can do short of repairing your XP installation. So repair oyur XP installation already. ;-)

It may take an hour but it's worth it. The repair (not restore) instructions are here (read it all)

http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/22715.html


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Response Number 4
Name: Nemo
Date: October 4, 2003 at 14:51:18 Pacific
Reply:

Tried XP repair and it didn't fix it :(


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Response Number 5
Name: Nemo
Date: October 25, 2003 at 16:36:38 Pacific
Reply:

Problem has been fixed.

Solution:
I reset my hardware...what I did was unplug the power from all my drives, unplugged the power from the Motherboard, removed my RAM...waited a few secs and put everything back...I no longer have this problem.


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