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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:22:42+00:00

After putting a filedroplist on the clipboard – right clicking in windows explorer doesn’t

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After putting a filedroplist on the clipboard – right clicking in windows explorer doesn’t give me the option to “create shortcut”. How do I get that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need other formats present, particularly the OLE stuff.

    Experimenting with a diagnostic mode of my app (ClipMate), I see that when you have copied a file to the clipboard, and then right-click on the windows desktop, the following formats are read from the clipboard:

    Ole Private Data
DataObject
Preferred DropEffect
HDROP
Shell IDList Array

    And then when you actually perform “paste shortcut”, an additional format is pulled:

    Shell Object Offsets

    I was able to perform a “paste shortcut” without the Preferred DropEffect, so I think that’s optional. I tested on Windows XP, SP3. YMMV with other platforms.

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