Drag and drop doesn't work when application running as administrator

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I have a standard c# winforms exe with drag and drop enabled which is working fine, But when I run exe as Admin then drag and drop doesn't work. How I can sort this?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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Lower-privileged processes cannot drag-and-drop to higher-privileged ones on Vista and later.

You can also open a file explorer (for instance TotalCommander) as administrator, this will allow you to drag and drag, because they both run on the same privilege level.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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