I recently installed Windows Vista on a work computer and ran into a problem when ever I would drag and drop files. Windows Explorer would crash everytime. Initially I thought it was a permissions issue. After a few weeks of looking and searching the web I was about an hour away from a fresh install when I found the issue.
The Issue:
Get this...It's a bad context menu handler. That's right, you know the 'right click' options. Apparently a poorly coded context menu will make Explorer crash.
Solution:
There is a way to edit your registry to fix this, but my guess is that 99% of people don't like doing this because it can have unintended impacts. So I recommend downloading Shell Extensions Manager. This little utility will show you all the shell extensions currently installed.
Open the program and disable all extensions that are not Microsoft, Windows, etc. Then try to drag and drop! If you need some of the extensions start enabling them one by one until you identify the one that's impacting your system.
Hope this helps!!!
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