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How to add a shortcut to Send To in right click menu
In all previous versions of windows I have been able to locate the root
Santo and add what ever shortcuts I wanted to. In Windows 7 this simple process has been turned into a convoluted mess. Can anyone provide the path to Send To and how I can add such shortcuts as I might choose e.g. one for recycle bin -- To be considerate of my contacts and friends, their email addresses have been hidden by putting them in the 'BCC' address area. All email addresses shown on the original message were also removed before the message was forwarded. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor, and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other |
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How to add a shortcut to Send To in right click menu
"Docster" wrote in message ... In all previous versions of windows I have been able to locate the root Santo and add what ever shortcuts I wanted to. In Windows 7 this simple process has been turned into a convoluted mess. Can anyone provide the path to Send To and how I can add such shortcuts as I might choose e.g. one for recycle bin C:\Users\Your Account Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo (AppData is a hidden folder so you may need to enable 'Show hidden files and folders' in Folder Options.) |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:39:21 -0000, Dave-UK wrote:
"Docster" wrote in message ... In all previous versions of windows I have been able to locate the root Santo and add what ever shortcuts I wanted to. In Windows 7 this simple process has been turned into a convoluted mess. Can anyone provide the path to Send To and how I can add such shortcuts as I might choose e.g. one for recycle bin C:\Users\Your Account Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo (AppData is a hidden folder so you may need to enable 'Show hidden files and folders' in Folder Options.) Easier way to get to the same place: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo You can click the Start button, enter that in the box, and press Enter. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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How to add a shortcut to Send To in right click menu
Dave-UK gave you the path and Stan Brown
explained how to turn it into a small programming project. I'd suggest a third idea: I find it useful to have a shortcut into one's App Data folder. I use an Explorer bar with shortcuts. Another method is to just put a shortcut on the Desktop. I find that I need to go into those folders frequently, while the design is tediously convoluted and overproduced, so it's worth having a shortcut to at least save some of the travel required to get there. |
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How to add a shortcut to Send To in right click menu
Also worth noting is that folders can
be used to create submenus. For instance, ....SendTo\Photos\ could contain shortucts to D:\Graphics\Travel\Paris D:\Graphics\Travel\London D:\Graphics\Photos\Vacations etc. |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:14:58 -0500, Mayayana wrote:
Also worth noting is that folders can be used to create submenus. For instance, ...SendTo\Photos\ could contain shortucts to D:\Graphics\Travel\Paris D:\Graphics\Travel\London D:\Graphics\Photos\Vacations etc. My case is odd... I can do what you described in Windows XP even with directory junctions and symbolic link (with third party driver). But in my Windows 7 SP1, even though I can put an actual subfolder there, the SendTo submenu doesn't popup another submenu when I hover the mouse cursor over the subfolder menu item. The subfolder was created by my own account and it does have more than one shortcut files and they don't have hidden attribute enabled. I'm not using a limited Windows account, BTW. Am I missing something? |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:19:19 -0500, Mayayana wrote:
Dave-UK gave you the path and Stan Brown explained how to turn it into a small programming project. I'd suggest a third idea: I find it useful to have a shortcut into one's App Data folder. I use an Explorer bar with shortcuts. Another method is to just put a shortcut on the Desktop. I find that I need to go into those folders frequently, while the design is tediously convoluted and overproduced, so it's worth having a shortcut to at least save some of the travel required to get there. Third and a half idea... Better is you use a junction or a symbolic link. It won't cost you a single cluster. |
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| But in my Windows 7 SP1, even though I can put an actual subfolder there,
| the SendTo submenu doesn't popup another submenu when I hover the mouse | cursor over the subfolder menu item. Yes, I see what you mean. Sorry. I guess that's just one more thing broken in Win7. I do it in XP and hadn't tried it in Win7 before, so I just assumed it still worked. |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 07:00:11 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:39:21 -0000, Dave-UK wrote: "Docster" wrote in message ... In all previous versions of windows I have been able to locate the root Santo and add what ever shortcuts I wanted to. In Windows 7 this simple process has been turned into a convoluted mess. Can anyone provide the path to Send To and how I can add such shortcuts as I might choose e.g. one for recycle bin C:\Users\Your Account Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo (AppData is a hidden folder so you may need to enable 'Show hidden files and folders' in Folder Options.) Easier way to get to the same place: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo You can click the Start button, enter that in the box, and press Enter. And even easier way: Start*button » shell:sendto This has been listed in my Windows 7 tips page for some time, and I completely forgot it was there! -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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What is a symbolic link? This is a new term for me.
"JJ" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:19:19 -0500, Mayayana wrote: Dave-UK gave you the path and Stan Brown explained how to turn it into a small programming project. I'd suggest a third idea: I find it useful to have a shortcut into one's App Data folder. I use an Explorer bar with shortcuts. Another method is to just put a shortcut on the Desktop. I find that I need to go into those folders frequently, while the design is tediously convoluted and overproduced, so it's worth having a shortcut to at least save some of the travel required to get there. Third and a half idea... Better is you use a junction or a symbolic link. It won't cost you a single cluster. -- To be considerate of my contacts and friends, their email addresses have been hidden by putting them in the 'BCC' address area. All email addresses shown on the original message were also removed before the message was forwarded. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor, and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other |
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Thanks to this response and all the other helpful responses I was able to
navigate to the Send To folder. Once I found it I attempted to right click on my Recycle Bin to create a shortcut which I intended to drag into the Send To folder.........the Recycle Bin has no option for a right click Create Shortcut. Having hit this wall I copied the folder into the Send To folder and an icon with correct name appeared, in the folder. To test I right clicked on a desktop folder to see if I could send it to the recycle bin only to find that when the right click of my mouse was executed the Recycle Bin did not appear in the dialog menu block. Is there something particular about the Recycle Bin? Also how do I get the Documents and Settings on the C Drive to open? As the owner and Administrator I don't quite understand how I can be denied access to any folder! "Stormin' Norman" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:45:06 -0500, "Docster" wrote: In all previous versions of windows I have been able to locate the root Santo and add what ever shortcuts I wanted to. In Windows 7 this simple process has been turned into a convoluted mess. Can anyone provide the path to Send To and how I can add such shortcuts as I might choose e.g. one for recycle bin Here is an excellent freeware tool that makes the task quite simple: Send To Toys 2.7 http://www.gabrieleponti.com/software/#sendtotoys AND Here are some instructions for doing it manually: http://lifehacker.com/5640841/edit-t...rd-party-tools -- To be considerate of my contacts and friends, their email addresses have been hidden by putting them in the 'BCC' address area. All email addresses shown on the original message were also removed before the message was forwarded. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor, and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:57:55 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:44:30 -0500, Docster wrote: Thanks to this response and all the other helpful responses I was able to navigate to the Send To folder. Once I found it I attempted to right click on my Recycle Bin to create a shortcut which I intended to drag into the Send To folder.........the Recycle Bin has no option for a right click Create Shortcut. Having hit this wall I copied the folder into the Send To folder and an icon with correct name appeared, in the folder. To test I right clicked on a desktop folder to see if I could send it to the recycle bin only to find that when the right click of my mouse was executed the Recycle Bin did not appear in the dialog menu block. Is there something particular about the Recycle Bin? Also how do I get the Documents and Settings on the C Drive to open? As the owner and Administrator I don't quite understand how I can be denied access to any folder! "Stormin' Norman" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:45:06 -0500, "Docster" wrote: In all previous versions of windows I have been able to locate the root Santo and add what ever shortcuts I wanted to. In Windows 7 this simple process has been turned into a convoluted mess. Can anyone provide the path to Send To and how I can add such shortcuts as I might choose e.g. one for recycle bin Here is an excellent freeware tool that makes the task quite simple: Send To Toys 2.7 http://www.gabrieleponti.com/software/#sendtotoys AND Here are some instructions for doing it manually: http://lifehacker.com/5640841/edit-t...rd-party-tools Why not just use the Delete button to send an item to the Recycle Bin? Just don't configure your deletes to be unconditional. Yes that's what I do for large-scale narrowing of selections. But it's too easy to forget a recycled single or few items. |
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How to add a shortcut to Send To in right click menu
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:44:30 -0500, Docster wrote:
Thanks to this response and all the other helpful responses I was able to navigate to the Send To folder. Once I found it I attempted to right click on my Recycle Bin to create a shortcut which I intended to drag into the Send To folder.........the Recycle Bin has no option for a right click Create Shortcut. Having hit this wall I copied the folder into the Send To folder and an icon with correct name appeared, in the folder. To test I right clicked on a desktop folder to see if I could send it to the recycle bin only to find that when the right click of my mouse was executed the Recycle Bin did not appear in the dialog menu block. Is there something particular about the Recycle Bin? Also how do I get the Documents and Settings on the C Drive to open? As the owner and Administrator I don't quite understand how I can be denied access to any folder! "Stormin' Norman" wrote in message ... On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:45:06 -0500, "Docster" wrote: In all previous versions of windows I have been able to locate the root Santo and add what ever shortcuts I wanted to. In Windows 7 this simple process has been turned into a convoluted mess. Can anyone provide the path to Send To and how I can add such shortcuts as I might choose e.g. one for recycle bin Here is an excellent freeware tool that makes the task quite simple: Send To Toys 2.7 http://www.gabrieleponti.com/software/#sendtotoys AND Here are some instructions for doing it manually: http://lifehacker.com/5640841/edit-t...rd-party-tools Why not just use the Delete button to send an item to the Recycle Bin? Just don't configure your deletes to be unconditional. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:44:30 -0500, Docster wrote:
the Recycle Bin has no option for a right click Create Shortcut. Mine does. I made one and put it into the folder, but as in your case, it doesn't appear on the menu. But then, I haven't rebooted yet. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:03:41 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:44:30 -0500, Docster wrote: the Recycle Bin has no option for a right click Create Shortcut. Mine does. I made one and put it into the folder, but as in your case, it doesn't appear on the menu. But then, I haven't rebooted yet. I rebooted. Still no joy. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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