Drag and Drop Attachments

Does anybody know what allows/restricts the feature to drag and drop attachments onto email ?
I used to use this all the time, then suddenly a few month ago, couldn't. i have tried myself to figure out why, without success.
I am using BT Yahoo Mail through IE11.0 on Windows 7. IE is set to 'auto-update' so something may have been reset, but i cant figure out what that might be.
Attachment though the paperclip icon works OK.
More mysteriously, my laptop uses the same setup but drag and drop still works OK on that !
Any ideas please ?
thanks
John

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