Google Chrome's drag drop feature stopped working

Somehow I set chrome.exe as "Run as administrator" from "Right Click Shortcut -> Properties -> Compatibility". Unchecking this solved the problem.


  1. Point Chrome to URL: chrome://flags
  2. DISABLE: "Enable touch events"
  3. DISABLE: "Enable touch initiated drag and drop"
  4. Relaunch chrome

Source: https://github.com/dbushell/Nestable/issues/92

It fixed this issue for me.


You can try exiting and restarting Chrome. That just fixed it for me. (Maybe my Chrome instance had started as Administrator, but I don't know how/why that would have happened.)