windows xp service pack 3 disables drag & drop feature

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windows xp service pack 3 disables drag & drop feature

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just as it says. I had to install SP3 in order to play GTA 4.
After installing SP3 and reboot, it gave me blue error screen once, but next time it booted fine.
Then i discovered that I'am unable to drag & drop files from folder to folder, right click drag also didn't work.
right click drag - it means when you drag an file/folder with right click and release the right button, then it asks - move here, copy here, create shortcuts here or cancel.

So i did some research. I found lot of stuff on how to fix it, but none of them worked.
1. right click taskbar - properties - startmenu (tab) - customize - advanced (tab) - enable draggin and dropping
-failed, it had no effect. tried to disable and enable again..etc

2. In IE (yes in internet explorer) - tools - internet options - security :
in all of the zones, select "custom level" and scroll down (miscellaneous) to "drag and drop or copy and paste files". I enabled it for all zones
-failed. nothing happend.

3. I tried some registry editing by adding those:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"Start_EnableDragDrop"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoChangeStartMenu"=dword:00000000
-failed. still no effect. ofcourse you have to reboot after doing this.

4. I ran hijackthis and checked if there is anything that can interfere with it, but there was nothing strange showing up.
on some forum they suggested to check ALL items in hijackthis and remove, but i already know that by removing a SYSTEM service you only screw up your windows so it wont even boot anymore, so i simply looked what hijackthis found and there was nothing that points to this problem.

Here's also a topic on some other forum about it, where ppl have same problem and have tried same things and even consulted with microsoft:
-click here-


FIX - as far as i know, there's no other fix than to uninstall SP3, it is total junk anyways. it gave me NOTHING at all. my pc was only slower after installing it and it also made some junk under start menu. so my suggestion: do not install SP3 at all.
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Re: windows xp service pack 3 disables drag & drop feature

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FIX
Finally i managed to find the fix for this problem.
Internet zone policy is causing this. It is enought to add one registry key.
1. click start
2. run
3. type in "regedit"
4. in regedit go here:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/Zones/4
5. right click on the right window and choose new - DWORD
-name it "180D", then right click it and "modify". set value to "0"

This fixed the problem for me. No reboot required, but if it doesn't work, then you may want to reboot (sometimes you need to reboot, before registry changes takes effect). i didnt had to reboot anyways.
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