Unable to Drag-n-Copy from IE7 to Word or WordPad in Vista but no problem with it in XP
Hello everyone,
I have two computers; one with Windows XP SP2 and the other with Vista Home Premium.
In XP I often copy highlighted text from IE7 page just by dragging it onto another one in the Task Bar (Word or Search field in the new browser window), which opens as soon as the mouse cursor hovers over it. I can't reproduce the same procedure in Vista. When I try, that second window's rectangle in the Task Bar changes only to orange color but it never opens to let me finish copying like in XP. So, I'm forced there to use the "usual" Copy and Paste technique.
I also asked for help with it in PCWorld forum (http://forums.pcworld.com/thread/34672?tstart=0) and two posters reproduced the Drag-n-Copy task successfuly on their systems using IE7 and Word (with Vista UAC turned ON and IE7 "Protected mode" Enabled). The only thing new was that the "Interenet Explorer Security" warning window poped up asking them for permission to continue: "Do you want to allow web content to be copied to this program?" Coping to WordPad they did not get any warnings. I still can't accomplish that task nor am I getting any warnings on my system.
Where can I check and tweak any related settings that would allow me to get things done as they supossed to without undermining system's security? Thanks for any advice.
Personally I disabled Vista's 'Permissions' for that very reason. It is SO ANNOYING and I know that is is there to protect you, but it does stop programs working and problems are created. Did you turn off 'Permissions'? If so try it, just make sure you have all the other protections that Gizmo has written about and other editors on security. Look atthis link and somewhere it will offer a wayto disable permissions http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-vista-tweaks.htm
Tony
I did contact Microsoft, thank you for the link. For final answer follow the link to PCWorld forum from my initial post.
I would say it's a good question for Microsoft, SP1 support is free. Try to contact them.
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&x=8&y=7&prid=112...
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