I have recently bought and installed a fully legit (I'm proud to say) version
of WinXP Pro SP2 after discovering I had a pirated Corporate version.

Ever since the full reinstall, whenever I drag a file or folder outside of
it's source window, ie. to the Recycle Bin, as soon as I move it outside the
window area, the icon disappears and all I'm left with is an arrow with a
grey rectangle but no transparent icon. I have the "show windows contents
while dragging" setting enabled.

I don't remember this being the case with the Corporate version, where the
entire transparent icon of the file/folder was visible while dragging outside
of the source window. Is there a setting that needs to be changed or was it
always like this only I never noticed it?

I'm running the original blue WinXP theme and the same up-to-date video
driver as before.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

delta_J

Perhaps caused by non current video card drivers? Get them at the
manufacturers web site to be the current ones.

delta_J wrote:

> I have recently bought and installed a fully legit (I'm proud to say) version
> of WinXP Pro SP2 after discovering I had a pirated Corporate version.
>
> Ever since the full reinstall, whenever I drag a file or folder outside of
> it's source window, ie. to the Recycle Bin, as soon as I move it outside the
> window area, the icon disappears and all I'm left with is an arrow with a
> grey rectangle but no transparent icon. I have the "show windows contents
> while dragging" setting enabled.
>
> I don't remember this being the case with the Corporate version, where the
> entire transparent icon of the file/folder was visible while dragging outside
> of the source window. Is there a setting that needs to be changed or was it
> always like this only I never noticed it?
>
> I'm running the original blue WinXP theme and the same up-to-date video
> driver as before.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>
> delta_J

no, no. I just told you my drivers are up to date. I especially checked for
and downloaded the lastest version after reinstalling Windows.

Any clue what could be going on?

delta_J

"Bob I" wrote:

> Perhaps caused by non current video card drivers? Get them at the
> manufacturers web site to be the current ones.
>
> delta_J wrote:
>
> > I have recently bought and installed a fully legit (I'm proud to say) version
> > of WinXP Pro SP2 after discovering I had a pirated Corporate version.
> >
> > Ever since the full reinstall, whenever I drag a file or folder outside of
> > it's source window, ie. to the Recycle Bin, as soon as I move it outside the
> > window area, the icon disappears and all I'm left with is an arrow with a
> > grey rectangle but no transparent icon. I have the "show windows contents
> > while dragging" setting enabled.
> >
> > I don't remember this being the case with the Corporate version, where the
> > entire transparent icon of the file/folder was visible while dragging outside
> > of the source window. Is there a setting that needs to be changed or was it
> > always like this only I never noticed it?
> >
> > I'm running the original blue WinXP theme and the same up-to-date video
> > driver as before.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
> >
> > delta_J
>
>