Drag & Drop onto BC4 desktop icon doesn't work

[deleyd]

Whenever I try opening my Beyeond Compare 4 by dropping a file onto the desktop icon for BC4, the file doesn't open in BC4 and instead just gets moved to the desktop.

Anything I can do to make this work?

The command line for the desktop icon is: "C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 4\BCompare.exe"

[Aaron]

Hello,

That looks correctly configured and should work with a drag and drop. What gets moved to the Desktop, the file you are trying to drop?
If you drag/drop a temp.txt file from the Desktop\, what does this do?

If you check the C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 4\, are any BCState.xml or other .xml files present in the install directory?

[deleyd]

I found problem was not limited to Beyond Compare. I found answer at this website:

https://superuser.com/questions/5642...d-with-move-to

Apparently caused by installing Altova XMLSpy, which changed registry entry for:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\shellex\DropHandler

from what it should be:
{00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
to
{83D96563-DB11-42DF-92F9-32CE7BA54ED8}

Changing that back to {00021401-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} fixed everything.

(Possibly uninstaller for XMLSpy failed to change it back, as I don't have that installed on my computer, but may have had it.)

[Aaron]

Good that you were able to figure that out. If you get the chance, you may want to report that issue to Altova so they can get that fixed.