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Restore missing "Desktop (create shortcut)" entry to the Send To menu in Windows XP
Symptom
When you right click on a file system object and choose Send To, the entry Desktop (create shortcut) may be missing.
Resolution
This happens if the file Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink is missing from the SendTo folder for your user account. Use one of the following methods to recreate the missing file, and the corresponding Send To menu entry.
Method 1
- Click Start, Run and type:
regsvr32 sendmail.dll
- Press Enter
Method 2
- Click Start, Run and type:
shell:sendto
- Create a new file named Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink in that folder
Method 3
- Click Start, Run and type the following and press Enter:
%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\Default User\SendTo
- Copy the file named Desktop (create shortcut) to the following folder in your user profile:
%userprofile%\SendTo
(Type the above in Start, Run dialog to launch the folder)
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5 Responses to "Restore missing "Desktop (create shortcut)" entry to the Send To menu in Windows XP" 
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said this on 08 Feb 2007 3:19:09 AM PDT
Thanks for your excellent efforts towards the helpless users of Windows who are ignorant of Operating systems and their functionality.
Once again congratulations for your Successful & great efforts.
Yours faithfully
harish
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said this on 09 Feb 2007 9:11:06 AM PDT
brilliant!! Thank-you so much, I have been puzzled by this for weeks.
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said this on 23 Apr 2007 5:29:38 PM PDT
11 out of 10 for this article. I must have visited thirty sites,(with no luck) before finding this one. I tried your first method, and I cannot believe how straightforward and simple it was.
Thank you very much indeed
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said this on 04 Aug 2007 9:38:02 PM PDT
Thank You!! I used method 1 and all is well. You did great.
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said this on 08 Aug 2008 12:32:09 PM PDT
I tried the first one and it was coming up sith some wierd .dll error. So I tried the 2nd one. It worked great! I was a little confused by where it says "Create a new file named Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink in that folder". So I went into wordpad and saved a blank document with that as the title and it worked! Thanks a ton!
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