Unable to Copy and Paste

[Zygy]

Why is it that I am unable to either drag a Folder from CD onto My Documents
or Copy and Paste. I cannot do it to Desktop either. When I try doing it all
the icons on the Desktop disappear, the keyboard is disabled and although
the Icons reappear after a while the keyboard will only work when I restart
the PC.

My biggest concern is that I am unable to drag or Copy & Paste folders from
CDs. Any ideas?

 

[Elmo]

Why is it that I am unable to either drag a Folder from CD onto My
Documents or Copy and Paste. I cannot do it to Desktop either. When I
try doing it all the icons on the Desktop disappear, the keyboard is
disabled and although the Icons reappear after a while the keyboard will
only work when I restart the PC.

My biggest concern is that I am unable to drag or Copy & Paste folders
from CDs. Any ideas?

A few things to try:

- Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

That could work if those sections of the context menu are damaged, I
guess. It shouldn't hurt anything to read these articles and consider
the fixes.

- I _believe_ Copy Paste are connected to Ole components, which are tied
to IE. It might help to repair Internet Explorer to get these working
right again:

How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q318378

- Perhaps just re-registering some of these .dll's will fix it.

Click Start button, Run command and type in the text box:

Regsvr32 /i ole32.dll and click [OK] or Hit [Enter] on your keyboard.

Regsvr32 /i shell32.dll and click [OK] or Hit [Enter] on your keyboard.

Regsvr32 mshtml.dll and click [OK] or Hit [Enter] on your keyboard.

- Look for malware on the machine.

hth,