What I’ve done is customize the “Send To” menu that’s available from the right-click context menu. My customizations allow me to right-click on any file and quickly send the file to another destination folder for saving, storage or organization.

Customizing the menu is fairly easy, you can just follow the instructions below:

1. Create a shortcut on your desktop to the location/folder where you want to be able to quickly send files.
2. Open the following path C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\SendTo
3. Move the shortcuts you created in Step 1 above into the folder opened in Step 2

That’s it!

You’re done.

Now you have shortcuts to your preferred folders now available in the “Send To” menu available when you right-click on a file. Any location you find yourself normally sending files to regularly can be added to the list. You can even create shortcuts to network locations as well if you desire. If you put a shortcut to the executable for a program you can send a file to be opened into that program.

I use this customization on a daily basis. Hopefully you’ll find it as handy as I do.

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How to Customize Your “Send To” Menu

Create Shortcut Dialog on Windows XP

Our first thought was that we could attach the shortcut file into the email using the standard attachment tool of clicking on the paperclip, but that attached the target file into the email as a full attachment. I then tried to drag the shortcut file into the email body and that attached just the .lnk like we wanted, but then those attachments are identified as a security risk and are blocked at the server level.

I then looked at what it would take to write a batch file to install a shortcut to their machines automatically. Granted I’ve never done this before so this would have been a stretch for me, but thought it was a possibility. I then decided the systems were locked down and may not let the batch file run in the first place. Wasn’t too sure.

My next step was to try and drag the shortcut .lnk file into the Word document I was creating as a training guide. After a number of attempts trying to do this, Word continued to lock-up every time I’d try to attach the shortcut file in this manner as well.

Should sharing a shortcut with someone really be that difficult?

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Sharing A Standard Shortcut on a Network