Okay, I've got Windows Media Player version 9, both on the work PC and the home PC. on the work PC, I can drag files from folders on my computer into the "now playing" list, and create a playlist. When I try to do the same thing on my home computer, it won't let me. The mouse changes to the circle with the line through it, and files will not drag into WMP, in any way.

This is so frustrating. I have scoured Google for an answer, to no avail. I have dug deep in the WMP options, thinking there may be something on there, but nope. I just cannot figure out why a fundamental aspect of WMP acts differently between these two machines.

Can anyone out there assist?Are you using the SAME songs at you are at work, or different ones?

[glb]Flame[/glb]Yes.Have you TRIED running a Windows Update on BOTH computers?

[glb]Flame[/glb]I don't want to update them, because if I did, they would go to Windows Media Player 10. I want to stick with 9. I take it from the RANDOM fishing expedition, that you basically have no idea what could be causing this? If not, that's FINE. I just thought maybe someone here would know the cause off hand.

Oh well.
It may possibly be down to differences in version.

"What a twit", I hear you say. "Has he even read my post?" Well, yes I have, but it may be possible.

It's WMP 9, but that's only what they call the "major revision number". You'll also get "minor revisons", usually seperated by commas. Each bug fix or small change means they increment the minor revision up, but any major overhauls or big changes mean they increment the major one.

My guess is that your home PC is a slightly earlier version, while the work one is later and has had this bug fixed. You're best bet is to get the installer file from the machine at work (if possible) and get it onto your PC by whatever backing storage media you use. It'll probably be in the Windows Media Player directory (mines at C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\setup_wm.exe)Hey, now there's at least an idea I can try... I'm going to give that one a go this evening. I'll let you know what happens, although I have a sinking feeling that there's something else going on here, like some odd windows setting or registry entry. This is because I had in the past allowed my home machine to "update" to WMP10, and I thought that was the problem, so I went back down to 9, to no avail. Anyway, I'll give this a go, see what happens.

Thanks.Well, I went home LAST night, and remembered one other difference between the two machines. Work machine had SP2 on it, but home machine didn't (due to this problem). Well, I finally got around to fixing my computer to make it ready for SP2, and installed it. Lo and behold, drag-and-drop now works!

Go figure.