Comments on: Disable the "Send To" Folder on the Windows Explorer Context Menu

By: mox

mox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:44:55 +0000

useless in windows 7 :<

By: Alessandra

Alessandra — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:22:16 +0000

Thank you so much for this info

By: Idefix

Idefix — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:12:50 +0000

Thanks! It works great!

However, I didn’t remove the text, but put “disable” in front of it. Had the same effect and this way it’s easier to go back again.

By: HamatoKameko

HamatoKameko — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:56:08 +0000

Thank you so very much. One of the most infuriating problems I’ve had with my computer is accidentally mousing over that damned Send To menu and having to wait for it to load when I never use it in the first place. Extremely useful hack.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:56:44 +0000

under the same heading in the registry (ContextMenuHandlers), there are other keys, though they don’t have obvious names like ’send to’ does. can you share how to get rid of (or maybe even edit in our own … ya, i know, that would end up being a long post) other context menu items we wish to rid our UIs of?

thanks for this tip, geek. i’ve never had a use for send to…

By: dcj2

dcj2 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:53:59 +0000

Here’s one of my favorite “Send To” tweaks. No matter how I tried, I couldn’t get people on the network to refrain from emailing attachments to each other. So I set up hidden shared folders for each user on a server, then set the rights so everyone could write to the folder, but only the owner could list/read. Then I created an alphabetical list of the “Inboxes” and pushed it out vie GPO to everyone’s, “Send To” submenu. Now when someone wants to send a file (or files), they right-click the file, Send To, scroll to the persons name, and click. So much easier than file attachments, keeps the load off the mail server, etc. It was a very popular solution.

By: ExitRitual

ExitRitual — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:58:18 +0000

That’s really handy!
I always find that particular menu slow to load, especially when i accidentally mouse-over it…

What’d be even more useful is if we could have a tweak that would replace the ’send to’ menu with a single entry of our choice, say, ’send to desktop’ or a specified location.