New Windows 11 file explorer can't drag and drop in address bar

Drag and drop was not removed, just disabled. If you go to any program that can open file, you can see it still works in the "opening" window. You forgot to disable it across the board. 😉

The file dialogs on Windows 11 remain pretty much unchanged from Windows 10. They use the same code base as the Windows 10 Explorer. The current Windows 11 Explorer is a new code base built on Microsoft's App SDK. Unfortunately, in that move, they've neglected to replicate the full functionality of the older Explorer.

If you don't mind loosing tabs, I recommend boycotting the new Explorer. Use the old Windows 10 version instead. You can do that with a simple set of registry settings, or use my free SwitchExplorer tool to make the settings for you.

Actually you can get back to windows 10, it's what I'm doing tomorrow, it will however wipe all data off your PC so make sure you back it up, if you go on the Microsoft website there should be a direct download for Windows 10 (I can't figure out anyway to revert without losing all data) it's my only option as in all honesty windows 11 has been entirely unbearable and has so many issues that I just can't work around and unnecessarily slows down my ability to work in a lot of regards, and the UI now is in my opinion really not good and lacks valuable customisation that I very much used a lot in windows 10. Removing features is just all around bad.

Edit... I didn't read ahead in the conversation where this got pretty much resolved... whoopsies, well my opinions out there I guess and hopefully it helps Microsoft do something to change this (It never will big companies are generally awful with feedback)

I have to say I've given this an install and I cannot thank you enough, this has saved me having to revert from windows 11, the other stuff I dislike I can somewhat put up with but the file explorer issues were really screwing with me; again thank you so much.