Stupid Geek Tricks: Secret Items on the Windows 7 Send To Menu
While poking around in Windows 7, I discovered extra context menu items using the same Shift + Right-click trick we used to open a command prompt from the desktop menu, and we’ve got big colorful screenshots to show you today.
Viewing the Secret Items
These are the default items that you should see on the Send To menu when you right-click on a file:
Hold down the Shift key while right-clicking on the icon, and then try the Send To menu… all sorts of extra options!
If you want any of those to show up normally without holding down the Shift key, you can create shortcuts in the Send To folder. Just type the following into the location bar:
shell:sendto
And then drag shortcuts to your preferred folders into this folder.
I’ve found that using custom shortcuts in the Send To menu can be very handy… I use them to upload images to the HTG web server on a daily basis.
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A friend of mine taught me a cool trick of creating a shortcut to the sendo folder in the sendto folder. This way you can send shortcuts on the desktop or anywhere else to the sendto folder without having to open the sendto folder. I use this for adding application shortcuts so I can send files to portable applications.
is there a way to do this on winxp?
How do you use Send To to send files to the server?
@Bioinfo_mgr: Yes. You would put the items in the sendto folder in your profile in windows xp. The path is :\Documents and Settings\\SendTo. The folder is hidden, so you need to have the “do not show hidden files and folders” option turned off in windows befor you could see it.
@Radu: It would depend on your connection to the web server. If it is on your local network, you can use the UNC Path. There are also tools which allow you to map remote servers, making an FTP or HTTP server appear to Windows as a Windows folder.
Good Luck!!!
Wups My paths in the comment above are missing stuff, as I used the GT and LT signs, so they got rendered. it should be [system drive]:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\SendTo
Been running 7 on an old box that has been collecting dust for over a year.
Runs great, and thanks to HTG, I’m learning all kinds of neat tricks.
Thanks!
Thanks a lot! I was wondering how to get rid of a shortcut on my send to menu and now i know.
Is it possible to get Open folder location in XP? That would be helpful !
You can easily open any of the folders under your user profile by typing the folder name into the
RUN dialog:
sendto = %userprofile%\sendto
favorites = %userprofile%\favorites
%temp% = %userprofile%\local settings\temp
any folder in you system path can be opened from the run dialog:
temp = %windir%\temp
system32 %windir%\system32
What about the “New” ggroup, could I add any more options there??
I’m using windows 7 now, on my old upgraded laptop en it works as a charm! it’s like windows xp but better;) by windows update I got my own language so it”:d” downloaded here;http://btjunkie.org/torrent/MICROSOFT-WINDOWS-7-ULTIMATE-7600-16385-RTM-X86-RETAIL-ENGLISH-DVD-ZUKO/4358815e86d150c5eb407491dbd1733344bf819fc8b3 as the comments say; activated it using 7loader by hazar!!! I like this so that we’re gonna buy it on the other pc
is there a way to do this in vista?
Is there a list od shell commands for windows?
has anyone else had the following problem with win7.
After putting my win7 computer..win7 home premium into sleep mode…. press enter key…to take out of sleep, and have a random program on your computer start up.
This has happened to me three times since i installed win7.
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I just found out about the “copy as path” item in Windows 7 context menu when holding shift on a file/folder. This tip has saved me loads of time when trying upload/open files.
i want to hide my personal images .is there any way without using any hide folder s/w of doing this ? i do use windows 7.
In xp you could be in a folder and use send to to send s file to wordpad or any other program link in the sendto directory. Is there a way to do the same thing in windows 7, i.e. right click a file and send it to and editor or program of choice? Send to seems to only allow you to send whole folders in windows 7. Windows 7 send to seems to be less functional.
Tim wouldn’t you use “open with” and choose notepad or wordpad instead of send to ??
You’d need to make sure the box wasn’t ticked for “always use this program to open this file type” though. (words to that effect)
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The “send to” addon that was available in windows XP was much better. I could select a set of files, use send to and it ad not only a list of place to send it but it gave you the option to browse anywhere to find a location to sent to. It also gave you the option to move or copy the files. The windows 7 “send to” will not let me send to a directory on the C drive and it seems to only move the files! I liked to old “send to” better.