Nerdy And Loving It

So, I decided to finally update to Service Pack 3, thinking that the bugs and problems would have been worked out by now, but alas they have not been.

After installing SP3 drag and drop just stops working. Left click and right click drag and drop both do not work in windows explorer. After researching the problem I found out that there’s a simple registry change that will fix this.

“In regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/Zones/4.

If there isn’t an entry named 180D, then create a new DWORD entry named 180D and set the value to 0.” (Source)

Edit the registry by going to the start menu, then run, then type regedit. The registry editor will start up. Navigate to the spot listed above just like you would navigate folders in windows explorer, then right click and select new -> DWORD Value. Type 180D and hit enter. A value of zero will be put into the variable automatically. Close the registry editor and you are done. Drag and drop works again. Hurray.

Here’s what you can delete from your World of Warcraft folder to free up space without impacting the game from running.

\Updates
\Patches
\Logs
\Errors
\Screenshots

\WoW-xxxxxxxx-downloader.exe
\WoW-xxxxxxxx-patch.exe

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