Drag and Drop

[Tom@OneCommunity]

I've recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. I used to be able to drag
and drop selected text, images, etc.. from MS Word, IE 8 and Adobe Acrobat
Reader 9 into OneNote. Now I can only copy and paste into OneNote. I seem
to remember having to set permissions to enable drag and drop between
applications, but can't figure out how to do this. Any suggestions would be
most appreciated.

 

[Bernd]

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> I've recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. I used to be able to drag
> and drop selected text, images, etc.. from MS Word, IE 8 and Adobe Acrobat
> Reader 9 into OneNote. Now I can only copy and paste into OneNote. I seem
> to remember having to set permissions to enable drag and drop between
> applications, but can't figure out how to do this. Any suggestions would be
> most appreciated.
>

The reason behind is UAC. UAC is trying to protect you from processes
running with lesser privileges from sending messages to processes
running with Administrator privileges.
One solution is to disable UAC. Another is to take care that all
programs run with the same privileges, e.g. by setting "Run As
Administrator".

Bernd

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Bernd wrote:
>> I've recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. I used to be able
>> to drag and drop selected text, images, etc.. from MS Word, IE 8 and
>> Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 into OneNote. Now I can only copy and paste
>> into OneNote. I seem to remember having to set permissions to
>> enable drag and drop between applications, but can't figure out how
>> to do this. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>>
>
> The reason behind is UAC. UAC is trying to protect you from processes
> running with lesser privileges from sending messages to processes
> running with Administrator privileges.
> One solution is to disable UAC. Another is to take care that all
> programs run with the same privileges, e.g. by setting "Run As
> Administrator".

FWIW:
1.) UAC has not been made stronger in Win7 - to the contrary.

2.) It's never recommendable to disable UAC.

Rainald