Send To |
Send a selected item to a program, disk
drive, or folder.
To Open
File or folder's context menu
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
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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.