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Drag to BTM no longer works in Windows 8.1

Feb
3
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Hi,

If I drag a don't care what object to a BTM file, directly or shortcut, that BTM should start wilt the dragged file as parameter %1. That worked fine under Windows NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, & en 8.

To day I have upgrade to Windows 8.1 and now, windows denies to start the BTM. If dragged to a BTM shortcut, the mouse cursor gets a "forbidden" icon.

How to tell Windows to do what I want. Any Idea why this is blocked?

Kind regards,
Ruud Uphoff
 
Do you have .BTM files associated with TCC.EXE ? (Only ouessing; I don't have Windows 8.1 handy at the moment.)
 
I have.
Code:
v:\> assoc .btm
.btm=TCC.Batch

v:\> ftype TCC.Batch
TCC.Batch="G:\TC15\TCC.EXE" /c "%1" %*

And, on Win7/32/SP1, I have no "drop on BTMfile" capability. Doesn't that capability require a special handler (as exists under "batfile" in the registry?
 
I have.
Code:
v:\> assoc .btm
.btm=TCC.Batch

v:\> ftype TCC.Batch
TCC.Batch="G:\TC15\TCC.EXE" /c "%1" %*

And, on Win7/32/SP1, I have no "drop on BTMfile" capability. Doesn't that capability require a special handler (as exists under "batfile" in the registry?

Given that association above, I added this (below, an actual REG file) to the TCC.Batch key. Now I can drop things on BTM files.

Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\shellex\DropHandler]
@="{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}"
 
Thanks Vince!

YES! Upgrade Windows 8 to 8.1 had (for don't know what reason) removed that key. Adding it from your reply has solved the problem.

Kind Regards,
Ruud Uphoff.
 
Thanks Vince!

YES! Upgrade Windows 8 to 8.1 had (for don't know what reason) removed that key. Adding it from your reply has solved the problem.

Kind Regards,
Ruud Uphoff.
I would not expect that "DropHandler" key to be in "TCC.Batch" in the first place. TCCBATCH.BTM (which registers .BTM) doesn't put it there.
 
Given that association above, I added this (below, an actual REG file) to the TCC.Batch key. Now I can drop things on BTM files.

Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TCC.Batch\shellex\DropHandler]
@="{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}"

Could you explain to us dummies how you derived that long hex number?
 
It's **THE** Windows DropHandler's GUID. I saw it under "batfile" and again when I Googled for: drag drop ".pl".
The OP must have had that registry entry at one time. TCCBATCH.BTM doesn't create it. IIRC, it .BTM isn't associated with TCC, an installation will show a prompt (right?). Does the install package create the drop handler key?
 

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