What's the deal with dragging and dropping files into programs in Windows 7?

[Barfo]

It appears that Windows 7 doesn't allow programs to accept dragged and dropped by default. The solution I found is to run the program as admin, then close and run normally and drag and drop is somehow enabled. weird I know, but it has worked with MP3Gain and MP3Tag. It's not too much of a bother unless I have to do it again when I restart.

Anyone know of a fix so I don't have to do this with every single program that I need to drop files into?

 

[Nothinman]

I've never had any problems with drag/drop in Win7.

 

[RebateMonger]

It's funny how people use tools differently. In about 25 years of using Windows, I've dropped a file onto a program icon exactly one time.

 

[Nothinman]

I drag files onto running notepad and wordpad instances a lot because it's quick. Same with cmd since it's tab completion sucks and dragging is usually quicker than finding a file's path with it.

 

[ImDonly1]

I drag and drop files onto media player classic icon on my desktop. Works fine.

 

[stash]

Drag and drop into cmd was disabled by design in Vista for security reasons, but I think they fixed that in Win7.

 

[Nothinman]

Drag and drop into cmd was disabled by design in Vista for security reasons, but I think they fixed that in Win7.

It still doesn't work if the prompt is started in a different security context which is pretty weak, but normally it does.