Drag and Drop to Printer Broken

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David Tong

If I drag and drop a file to a printer or to a printer shortcut in XP Pro it
normally prints immediately. However I noticed that now the ‘Move Items'
window and then the 'Copy Items’ windows appear. Only after I cancel both
of these does the printing get started.

Other points:
1. It behaves the same for all users on the computer.
2. Drag and drop to folders works normally.
3. A Google search suggested that
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\DropHandler might be involved but this
key does not exist on this machine.

Can anyone help on this?
 
The Copy to and Move to Folder options weren't designed to be on the context
menu. That is why you have a problem.

See this to fix it...

Problem caused by adding Copy To and Move To as context menu entries
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/movetocontext.htm

[[The "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" options weren't designed to be
on the context menu. They were only meant to be placed in Explorer's
toolbar.]]
What goes wrong when you add "Copy To" to the context menu
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/02/66160.aspx


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Wes,

Thank you for the perfect response - timely, solved the problem at a stroke,
led me on to learn some useful stuff...

I'd forgotten until now, but I experimented with MMM Contect Menu Editor a
month or two ago and it seemed 'a good idea at the time' to have these in
the context menu. I don't often drag and drop to printer so hadn't
previously noticed the drawback.

Thanks again for the help,
--
David Tong

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Wesley Vogel said:
The Copy to and Move to Folder options weren't designed to be on the
context
menu. That is why you have a problem.

See this to fix it...

Problem caused by adding Copy To and Move To as context menu entries
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/movetocontext.htm

[[The "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" options weren't designed to be
on the context menu. They were only meant to be placed in Explorer's
toolbar.]]
What goes wrong when you add "Copy To" to the context menu
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/02/66160.aspx


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
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David,

LOL 'a good idea at the time' We all get nailed by that one. Keep having
fun.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
David Tong said:
Wes,

Thank you for the perfect response - timely, solved the problem at a
stroke, led me on to learn some useful stuff...

I'd forgotten until now, but I experimented with MMM Contect Menu Editor a
month or two ago and it seemed 'a good idea at the time' to have these in
the context menu. I don't often drag and drop to printer so hadn't
previously noticed the drawback.

Thanks again for the help,
--
David Tong

[Please replace 'invalid' with 'com' to reply].
Wesley Vogel said:
The Copy to and Move to Folder options weren't designed to be on the
context
menu. That is why you have a problem.

See this to fix it...

Problem caused by adding Copy To and Move To as context menu entries
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/movetocontext.htm

[[The "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" options weren't designed to
be on the context menu. They were only meant to be placed in Explorer's
toolbar.]]
What goes wrong when you add "Copy To" to the context menu
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/02/66160.aspx


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
David Tong said:
If I drag and drop a file to a printer or to a printer shortcut in XP
Pro it normally prints immediately. However I noticed that now the
‘Move Items' window and then the 'Copy Items’ windows appear. Only
after I cancel both of these does the printing get started.

Other points:
1. It behaves the same for all users on the computer.
2. Drag and drop to folders works normally.
3. A Google search suggested that
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\DropHandler might be involved but
this
key does not exist on this machine.

Can anyone help on this?
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