Send to. Right click options?

[Loose rivets]

Right click on a file and send it somewhere...I've changed the destination before, but can't remember how.

I want to Send to a sub-directory / folder, rather than just plonk it into the offered drive.

Search and Help produce endless stuff, but not the answer...as usual for me


W7 RC

[Torque2]

Don't know if this helps, I believe it works for W7 also:



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.

[Loose rivets]

Thanks T2, a lot of input!

However, I'm puzzled by the two stages required. ie Why it wants:

Create Shortcut Wizard and create a shortcut to your preferred program.

I followed it blindly, and in fact created another means of getting it into F (a USB stick) but not into the required folder.

However, I'm on the right track it seems. I'm having to pack up due to popping up to #3 kids home, a mere 320 miles away. Next door in Texas terms, but getting the kitchen sink into the car is proving difficult. I'll resume on arrival there, though I'll be on my laptop Vista there.

Regular backups are rather important right now, I'm on borrowed time with my Release Candidate and it shuts down every 2 hours.

(The new W7 is grinning at me from the shelf behind the monitor.)

The next problem will be to make all my USB sticks assume the same drive letter. Even that seems to have become dynamic.

[Agent86]

If you want all of your usb drives to follow a defined drive letter mapping try USB DLM
It is also handy when you connect to a network that has mapped drives. You can set your USB drives to avoid any drive mapping. This has caused no end of grief ...either the network drive doesn't get mapped or the USB drive just doesn't play. Now with USBDLM installed first usb drive gets J, second K, third L and the network drives are sprayed around these

[Loose rivets]

That looks interesting. thanks for that. I'll play when I get back on my Pc.

[Mac the Knife]

Well, you can put "Send To" in the "Send To" folder.

Sort of self-referential....

Your personal "Send To" list lives in "C:\Documents and Settings\andrew\SendTo" (or suchlike) so you can add a shortcut pointing to "C:\Documents and Settings\andrew\SendTo".

Hey presto! A Send To that'll send to Send To!

:-)

Mac

[Loose rivets]

I'm on the laptop's Vista at the moment. Revealed hidden files, but getting nothing but 'access denied', and can't seem to make it let me in.