Send To

Send To

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Send a selected item to a program, disk drive, or folder.

To Open

File or folder's context menu Send To

Right-click on any file or folder and select Send To to send it to one of the shortcuts in your SendTo folder. The result is the same as dragging and dropping the icon onto the shortcut (see Figure 3-23).

Figure 3-25. Right-clicking any file or folder, selecting Send To, and choosing a destination has the same result as dragging and dropping the item to the destination, but Send To is often more convenient

For example, if the destination is an application, the application will be started and the selected file(s) will be opened. If the destination is a folder or a drive, the item(s) will be copied or moved (depending on several circumstances described in Chapter 2).

Notes

• The options that appear in the Send To menu are determined by the contents of the \Documents and Settings\{username}\SendTo folder. To add another Send To recipient, create a shortcut in that folder. For example, if you put a shortcut to notepad.exe into that folder (which I find extremely handy), you could easily open any file in Notepad, regardless of the file type.

  

  Send To works a bit differently, depending on the destination. Sending to a folder (including the Recycle Bin) actually moves the file there or copies if the source and destination are on different drives ; sending to a program simply opens the file. You can use Send To on shortcuts with impunity, but when you use it on an original file, remember that you may actually be moving the file.

  
  

• If you place a shortcut to your SendTo folder in your SendTo folder, you can create new Send To destinations simply by sending them to the SendTo folder! (Say that five times fast.)

• Place shortcuts to folders in Send To for an easy way to organize your files. You can work on files on the Desktop then use Send To to move them to their storage location when you're done. You can even create shortcuts to shared folders on other machines.

• If you want to have a lot of Send To locations, create subfolders in \Windows\SendTo . They will show up as cascading submenus on the Send To menu.