Windows 8.1 Drag and Not

[mwenz]

I work with around 12,000 product images and build digital and paper flyers and booklets. When I was using windows 7 I would search for the images I required and would drag and drop them into Xara. With the changes in windows 8 I am no longer able to do this, I have to navigate to the image location and open it in Xara then move it into my current document, and this is driving me nuts! I would like to run an app that's docked on the right side of the screen (as the search panel does) that will allow me to search for the image I need and drag and drop it into Xara, I have tried a number of explore apps and none of them allow you to drag and drop. This may seem rather minor but I have a large workload and productivity is very important to me.

Anyone got a solution?

Windows 8.1...Yep, cannot drag and drop.

You can, however, snap the search results to one side and adjust its width. Starting XDP, it "thinks" full screen is to the edge of the desktop to the edge of the search results, see the screen shots. A single-click will open successive XAR files in XDP.

Mike