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Customize Your Send To Menu

January 12, 2008

The “Send to” folder is the folder that arises any time you right-click a file and open the context menu. The items in this folder are able to be customized to your preference.

If you right a file, a menu should open that looks like this:
Customize Your Send To Menu

To access the Send To folder:

  • 1.Open up an explorer window.
  • 2.Now paste the following into the address bar.

    %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

    (“%APPDATA%” is an environment variable that maps to C:\users\\AppData\Roaming.”)

    You will find a number of shortcuts like this:

    Customize Your Send To Menu
    This next step will allow you to add an application to the Send to menu so that you can open files in an item of your choice. In this example we will use Notepad.

  • 3.Drag a shortcut to Notepad into this folder.
    The new item (Notepad) will appear in this menu.
    Customize Your Send To Menu
    This same method is possible to use with any application that is able to be opened by using a command line argument.

    Written by Vlad · Filed Under Windows Vista How To 

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