I have lost the option to Drag and Drop to burner

[DianaD 74]

Hi everybody, this is my first post on Seven forums so please be patient if you can
I am running Win 7 Professional.

When I grab a file and drag it to my optical drive (cd/dvd/ligtscribe) to be burned all I get is a red circle with a diagonal line through it .... same icon as the "no smoking sign we are all familiar with in the USA.

I do have two 3rd party DVD burning programs installed.
One is ImgBurn, and the other is DVDFab 8 which I bought.

I don't think these two programs had anything to do with it before, but somehow I've lost the ability to drag/drop files to be burned to the on board optical drive.
The Laptop is a HP DV6700 (dv6885SE) and I did try an external Burner....still get the red circle with the diagonal line through it.

Thanks to all in advance for any help
D!

 

[Anak]

Hi! Diana D 74, welcome to 7F

See: sevenforums.com-i-cant-drag-drop, and then check to see if yours is set the same.

 

[DianaD 74]

Thanks Anak, but that's not the problem I'm having.
I can drag and drop files anywhere but to the optical drive.
Thank you very much for your time

Does anybody have any other suggestions what the problem could be?
Thanks
D.

 

[Anak]

What version of DVDFab do you have? DVDFab did not start supporting that feature until the end of September of last year, and then only for certain (Supported) files

DVDFab 8.0.2.0 (September 30, 2010)

* New: Updated language files.
* New: Added context menu icon "Open with DVDFab" when right clicking on supported files.
* New: Added drag and drop support for supported files.
* New: Added support for Windows 7 Taskbar to show copying or conversion progress.
* New: Added "Pause/Resume" and "Cancel" buttons for Windows 7 Taskbar.
* New: Added history support for Windows 7 Taskbar.
* New: Reconstructed "Process" window, added "Info", "Preview" and "Option" tabs.
* New: Added "Preview" to check the output image when copying or converting.
* New: Open output folder when copying or conversion finished.
* New: Updated Commandline.txt to add new parameters.
* New: Minor changes and improvements.

From Fengtao DVDFab 8.0.2.2 is out (October 1, 2010) - DVDFab Forum

Did you make sure you restarted the computer after installation?
Any recent Windows updates? Drag and Drop will not work until computer is restarted.


You do not list your System Specs. Do you have an AMD/ATI video card in your machine, and is it updated?

Now after installing the latest ATI 10.4 drivers it takes 2hrs!
I had a look at the changelog and I think it may have something to do with the following:

AMD video transcoding updates
This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides enhanced support for the Windows 7 Drag
and Drop video converter

DVDFab Forum



To fill out your System Specs see Zidane24's post #4 here:
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The more information you can offer. Helps us help you.

 

[DianaD 74]

What version of DVDFab do you have? DVDFab did not start supporting that feature until the end of September of last year, and then only for certain (Supported) files

I have ver 8.0.7.3. I just got it about a month ago or so.
I'm getting a bit confused here,
Doesn't Win 7 Pro have a simple built in drag and drop burner option for files like XP does? I cant even drag a text doc or picture to the burner. All I get is the red circle with the line through it.

I don't remember if I had tried the drag and drop function to burn files on Win 7 before installing DvdFab as Ive only had Win 7 for a few of months.

Perhaps I disabled a service that I shouldn't have at one point.
Sorry but that's all the info I have.

I'd really like to get this resolved,
Thanks again for the reply.
D.

 

[Jacee]

If you right click on the file, do you have a 'send to' option?

 

[DianaD 74]

If you right click on the file, do you have a 'send to' option?

Yes I do but send to D: (optical drive) was not an option so I did some reading, added the burner to the "send to" options but I still get the red circle which still wont allow the function.

Thanks for the reply Jacee.
D

 

[mitchell65]

Often the installing of a third party burner will over ride the Send To facility, I know Nero does and it may be the case with one of yours, most probably the DVD fab 8. Would it be possible to uninstall the two 3rd party programs and see if the Send to comes back. You would need to reboot the laptop. What sort of files do you normally burn to DVD's or CD's? Have you any programs installed that have a burner facility in them like Video Editors?

 

[Jacee]

Check if drag and drop was disabled somehow ....
Right click on the start button
Select properties
Highlight the start menu tab
Click customize
Highlight the advanced tab
Scroll down
Enable dragging and dropping <--- make sure there is a check in the box.

 

[DianaD 74]

Check if drag and drop was disabled somehow ....

It's there Jaycee.... I can drag and drop all day, just not to the optical.
I guess I'll live with it.

I'm starting to think that mitchell65 is correct.
Thanks very much for your help.
D

 

[DianaD 74]

Often the installing of a third party burner will over ride the Send To facility, I know Nero does and it may be the case with one of yours,

Thanks Mitchell, I believe your probably correct.
But, just for the heck of it, does anybody know which service controls the native (drag/drop burner) in Win 7 Pro?

I really appreciate all the help.
I'm just a gal that learns 90% of this stuff on my own and from reading/posting in forums.
Thanks again.
D

 

[DianaD 74]

UPDATE!
I just checked my XP laptop and the Burner has a "recording" tab under properties/general if I right click on it.

My win 7 laptop has no recording tab.

My guess is that one of the third party programs has taken the burner over because I can still burn no problem with the third party programs.
Many thanks to all for your time.
You people are great!
D.

ps: I have one more major glitch.... this one might be a bit tougher than the burner issue but I think I'll wait a while to post about it since I'm new here. Dont want to wear my welcome out

Thanks
D

 

[DeaconFrost]

Most people would be thrilled to have drag and drop burning disabled. You have a very good free burning app, and a great free DVD ripping app already. For the best burning results, use them, and don't worry about the less-featured, unreliable built-in burning app.

 

[Jacee]

We're here to help (or at least try) ... so you can't wear your 'welcome' out just because you have problems!!

 

[scorpion99]

did you try to turn off the User Account control???? and try after restart???

 

[DianaD 74]

Most people would be thrilled to have drag and drop burning disabled. You have a very good free burning app, and a great free DVD ripping app already. For the best burning results, use them, and don't worry about the less-featured, unreliable built-in burning app.

I dont know how you got DvdFab for free but it cost me $50 for 8.0.7.3

http://www.dvdfab.com/

 

[DeaconFrost]

ps: I have one more major glitch.... this one might be a bit tougher than the burner issue but I think I'll wait a while to post about it since I'm new here. Dont want to wear my welcome out

You won't wear out your welcome at all. All I can suggest is...if the issue is unrelated, create a new thread so we can keep them separate. If you haven't done so already, fill out your system specs as well. It helps us to troubleshoot.

 

[DianaD 74]

ps: I have one more major glitch.... this one might be a bit tougher than the burner issue but I think I'll wait a while to post about it since I'm new here. Dont want to wear my welcome out

You won't wear out your welcome at all. All I can suggest is...if the issue is unrelated, create a new thread so we can keep them separate. If you haven't done so already, fill out your system specs as well. It helps us to troubleshoot.

Thanks
Will do

 

[DeaconFrost]

I dont know how you got DvdFab for free but it cost me $50 for 8.0.7.3

They have a free version that does all the same ripping, just not the conversations to other formats, like for an iPod. However, I use Handbrake to convert to these formats, so I never found a reason to pay for DVDfab. To pretty much all the people who use the app on here, it is considered free, because the free version does what we need it to do.

http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

 

[DianaD 74]

I dont know how you got DvdFab for free but it cost me $50 for 8.0.7.3

They have a free version that does all the same ripping, just not the conversations to other formats, like for an iPod. However, I use Handbrake to convert to these formats, so I never found a reason to pay for DVDfab. To pretty much all the people who use the app on here, it is considered free, because the free version does what we need it to do.

Free and powerful DVDFab software

Screwed again.... I didnt know...