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Tips & Tricks How To Modify The Send To Menu In Windows 10

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How to Customize the Send to Right-Click Menu in Windows 10

Your right-click menu contains many shortcuts you never use. What’s worse, the Send to menu, one of its sub-menus, is missing useful shortcuts.



Depending on how much software you have installed, this menu could contain a handful of items or a few dozen. In addition to the below, you might also have Bluetooth device or various external devices listed. The default Windows entries are:

1) Compressed (Zipped) Folder — Uses the basic compression utility built into Windows to add the selected items to a ZIP file.

2) Desktop (Create Shortcut) — Creates a shortcut to the selected item on the desktop. Useful for when you’re working with some files deep in your system and don’t want to forget their location.

3) Fax Recipient — You might not even have known Windows could send faxes, much less ever sent one. Because you can easily send faxes online, this is basically useless for most people.

4) Mail Recipient — Opens your default email program with the selected file attached to a new message.

The inbuilt zipping folder option is okay, but you should probably have a better file compression software installed that can handle that functionality. If you often use Outlook, the mail recipient shortcut is handy. The desktop shortcut is probably the most useful on the default menu for most people, while the fax shortcut is pointless.

Clearly, the Send to menu could use some help. Thankfully, it’s not hard to edit these entries.

Accessing the Send to Editor

You don’t need any special software to make changes to this menu. You can find the shortcuts that power the Send to menu at the following location:

C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo



However, there’s a much faster way to jump to this menu. Into either a File Explorer window’s address bar or the versatile Run menu, just type this command:

shell:sendto



This opens the same destination as the above. Once you’re here, you’ll see a shortcut file for each entry on the Send to menu. Delete a shortcut here, and it disappears from the Send to menu as well.




If you’re not sure where a shortcut comes from, with your mouse, right-click on it and click Open File Location.


You’re not limited to just deletions at this menu, either. You can add your own shortcuts
to programs or folders just like the existing ones.

To add a program as a shortcut, search for it using the Start Menu. With your mouse, right-click and choose Open file location. To access its executable (.exe), then right-click again on the resulting file and select, Create shortcut.



Move that shortcut into the Send to folder, and it’ll be a new option for you.



To add a folder, with your mouse, right-click on it and choose Create shortcut. Windows might alert you that it has to create the shortcut on the desktop, which is no problem.





Cut and paste that new shortcut into the Send to folder, rename it if you like, and it will appear on your Send to menu.




Getting “Send To” Just Right

The Send to menu is under-appreciated, but with just a few minutes you can clean up the junk and make it into an even better tool. It’s always just a click away, and doesn't require any extra software bogging down your computer. Sending files from the File Explorer instead of always opening them from other programs cuts down on wasted time. Be sure to give this menu a shot if you've neglected it. Never know just what it can really do for you until you look at it up close and personal.


Add More Options

The above method is perfectly fine for basic Send to editing.

Regards, Mindsnake2
 
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I don't know where you find/learn these little tweaks. This is the first time I have seen this one. :cool: Thanks.
 

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you're welcome @roma1234 . My kids teach me these things. :)
 

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Amazing little trick buddy.. I did try creating shortcuts for drivers to move related files as per that. Works perfectly fine & time saving. Hope to see good tips & tricks from you again great piece of work by you.
 

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you're welcome @roma1234 . My kids teach me these things. :)
Lol. SMART Kids! :D :clap:
 

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Thank you once again! @Mindsnake2 ....i love these tutorials! :)
 

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Thank you
 

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Really nice thank you!
 
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