Won’t happen to many of you, but here’s what to do if you suddenly find that you can’t drag and drop stuff in Windows XP.

First off, don’t panic. There’s lots of pages out there suggesting you have a virus. Not impossible, but unlikely.

Second, check to see if you have your escape key stuck. The key is on the top left of your key board. Tap it, it might be sluggish or some crumbs might be keeping it from floating back up and you have not realized it. Or perhaps, a program may have set it on.

If that doesn’t work for you, try this.

Download this ZIP file You may find other Registry free files to download from here.

When you are going to make any change in your registry, you MUST. See how to here from Microsoft Instruction> back it up first.

Open the files inside the Zip and you will see these files below.

The one you need is the dragndropx.reg.

 

Once you’re backed up, double click on it, and select yes from the resulting dialog:

 

Your registry should now be fixed.

Try dragging something now, may it be an icon, a file, or some text. It should work now.

(Note: This problem could of been caused by a registry cleaners or program that you may have used like i.e.; Norton System works..)

If you’re still having problems, you may have something more serious: Running a virus scan should be your first step in solving this problem. If there’s still a problem, then it could be your mouse driver.