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Customize Your “Send To” Menu

Altered send to menu

Have you ever right-clicked on a file to send it somewhere, just to find that Windows won’t send it to your preferred destination via the Send to menu? I encountered that problem a little while ago, and I decided to figure out how to fix it. If you find yourself moving files to the same folders over and over, using Send to menu can be very useful and efficient – especially when it includes the folders you want.

Fortunately, editing the Send to menu is very simple. First, press the windows key and R (or click the start button and “Run”) to bring up the Run dialog. Next, type shell:sendto in the run dialog. The list of shortcuts appears in an explorer window allowing you to add to or delete from it. Now all you have to do is create a shortcut of the folder you want to add to the menu, add it to the SendTo folder, and delete any old shortcuts you don’t need.

What will you add to your Send to menu?

Category: Windows