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Wed 25 Jan, 2006 10:03 am
Windows 2003 Server edition. Two systems suddenly started this behaviour. If you try to drag and drop something onto the desktop, it won't work. Cut and paste doesn't work either.
Looked at the Control Panel settings but can't find anything that might cause this.
Machines are on an isolated network and virus scans came up clean.
Any ideas?
Weird. I have noticed, at times, that a copy or cut doesn't "take" with ctrl-c or ctrl-x and instead I have to use right-click. But that probably doesn't hang out for long, and a restart definitely fixes it if it persists.
Under what circumstances is this happening?
For example, right click on My Computer then "Explore". Open the C:\Windows directory and pick an application you'd like on the desktop. In my case, I can select the app, run it, etc., but I cannot drag it to the desktop. If I right click and choose "Copy", then move to the desktop and right click, there is no Paste. All I get is the "Arrange icons" window. Argh.
I don't think you want the actual app on the desktop. Don't you just want a shortcut there? Then right-click, select create shortcut and then you should be able to just drag or cut and paste the shortcut to the desktop.
Doesn't work either. Nothing cut/paste drag/drop works.
Wacky. I'm past my expertise, sorry.
I saw this recently when an application was installed that took screen captures. (Apparently some folks don't know about shift-print screen.)
Closed the app and everything started working.
The lesson being that there is probably something grabbing the clipboard.
Interesting... thanks, I'll look into it!
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