Summary

The Send To menu allows you to quickly send a file to different locations including a floppy disk, CD-RW/DVD-RW, or to a third-party application. This article describes how to add items to the Send To menu in Windows Vista.

Adding items to the Send To menu

The Send To menu in Windows Vista contains the following items by default:

• Compressed (zipped) Folder
• Desktop (create shortcut)
• Documents
• Fax Recipient
• Mail Recipient
• Floppy Disk Drive (if present in the system)
• DVD-RW/CD-RW drives (if present in the system)

To add a destination to the Send To menu, you must add a shortcut to the SendTo folder. To do this, follow these steps:

• Click the Start button and type any one of the two commands below, in the search box:

shell:sendto

-or-

%appdata%\microsoft\windows\sendto

• Press Enter. The SendTo folder for your user profile opens.
• From the File menu, click New, and then click Shortcut.
• Follow the instructions in the Create Shortcut Wizard and create a shortcut to your preferred program. A new shortcut is created in the SendTo folder, and it is displayed on the Send To menu.

Tip: You may add Notepad to the Send To menu by adding a Notepad.exe shortcut in the SendTo folder. This helps you to quickly view the contents of a plain-text file by sending it to Notepad.